Disable advanced fields (files, radio..)

• vincentquantic

• July 15, 2022 at 5:22 pm

Hello there,

I need to disable ACF advanced fields like : File upload, radio… I’m able to do it for simple fields (input, date…) but no idea to do it for advanced field?

You guys have an idea ? What I want its to restrict user to change the value of those fields.

All my fields are displayed on Back-office. I’m using filter : prepare_field and do my own condition to disabled and readonly fields.

$field['readonly'] = 1;
    $field['disabled'] = 1;

thanks you

• John Huebner

• July 19, 2022 at 8:47 pm

A radio field can be disabled/readonly by setting it to an array of the values to be disabled

$field['disabled'] = array(
  'value 1',
  'value 2',
  'value 3'
);

As far as I know a file field cannot be disabled or set to readonly in this way. You would probably need to add JavaScript and remove the controls that allow removing and/or adding a file.