Reply To: Disabled and required Post Object field fails validation

• MisterR

• December 11, 2017 at 10:29 pm

Hi @hube2,

Thanks, this was helpful.

I need to rephrase my issue and explain it a bit better.

I need to show an ACF form on the front-end to add/edit posts of custom type “Application”. Fields “Job” and “Company” are pre-selected and must be always blocked or marked as read-only (user can’t change them), but I don’t know how I can do it with a Post Object field type (and whether it’s possible at all).

I tried smth like this:

acf.add_action('select2_init', function($input, args, settings, $field){

	if ($field.hasClass('application-job')) {

		args.disabled = true;
		settings.disabled = true;

		args.readonly = true;
		settings.readonly = true;
	}

});

Unfortunately, none of this worked.

On the back-end fields “Job” and “Company” must be enabled and required so an administrator cannot leave them empty.

If you have an idea how I can reach this goal, please share 🙂

As the last possible (alternative) solution I can do the following:

Create another fields group, where both Post Object fields are replaced by Text fields. Text fields can be made read-only very easily. This field group will be shown only on the front-end.

And my task would be just to synchronize them on post update.