Reply To: ACF Hide Field from Role(s)

• skdsam

• December 30, 2016 at 10:56 am

Hi,

I have a front end form and have found a solution to setting fields as not editable for different user roles. I have my code in the themes single post and run the below code when I’m getting the posts.

while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

 if(current_user_can('administrator'))
 {
     // get post id from have post	 
     $post = get_the_ID();

    // This is our form on front end and admins role can see and edit all fields
    $new_post = array(
        'post_id'            => $post, // get the post from id above
        'new_post'           => false,
        // PUT IN YOUR OWN FIELD GROUP ID(s)
	  //'field_groups'       => array(12), // Create post field group ID(s)
        'form'               => true,
	    'return'             => '%post_url%', // Redirect to post url
        'html_before_fields' => '',
        'html_after_fields'  => '<hr />',
        'uploader'           => 'wp',
        'honeypot'           => true,
        //'fields'             => array('building'),
        'submit_value'       => 'Update activity',
        'updated_message'    => 'Saved!'
    );

 }
//  can be any user role even a custom user role  if(current_user_can(‘editor’))  or everyone else like below
 else
 {

     // Display the fields only no editing for set user role
     echo '<hr /><div class="acf-label"><label for="">Building</label></div>';
     echo '<div class="acf-input"><div class="acf-input-wrap">'.get_field('building').' </div>';
     
     // get post id from have post	 
     $post = get_the_ID();

    // This is our form on front end
    $new_post = array(
        'post_id'            => $post, // get the post from id above
        'new_post'           => false,
        // PUT IN YOUR OWN FIELD GROUP ID(s)
	//'field_groups'       => array(12), // Create post field group ID(s)
        'form'               => true,
	'return'             => '%post_url%', // Redirect to post url
        'html_before_fields' => '',
        'html_after_fields'  => '<hr />',
        'uploader'           => 'wp',
        'honeypot'           => true,
        // Add your fields here **** Note if you have tabs you need to use the field_key for them to display might be worth using all field_keys
        'fields'             => array('field_5859bd81f57e7','activity','start_date','completed_date','status','field_5859be28a1187','task_details', 'field_5859bda0f57e8','comments', 'field_5859be7473422' ,'document'),
        'submit_value'       => 'Update activity',
        'updated_message'    => 'Saved!'
    );

 }
 
 
acf_form( $new_post );

endwhile;

Some fields can be made to be disabled using the following code but this does not work for select field and other types I even tried to add css injection but that made the tab fields not display and did not work on the user select field how ever I tried to dirty hack.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Render our field to stop non roles from editing
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
add_filter('acf/prepare_field/name=activity', 'my_acf_prepare_field');
function my_acf_prepare_field( $field ) 
{

 $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
 $cu = $current_user->user_login;
 $value_personcu = get_field( “activity” );
 $select_staff_id = $value_personcu['ID'];
 $rr =  $current_user->ID;

 if( current_user_can('administrator') ){}
 else
 {
   // set a text field to non editable
   $field['disabled'] = true; 
 }
  return $field;
}