Not allowing users with the editor role to select themselves in user field

• MatTeague

• March 2, 2017 at 10:10 pm

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post on here so please let me know if I have done something wrong with this post.

I am currently working on a project that has the ACF user field. However I want to edit the field so that if the user has an editor role, then they cannot select themselves from the user field. However I do want them to have the ability to select everyone else including other editors.

I was wondering if this is possible and how would I do this if it is possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my post.

Thanks.

• John Huebner

• March 3, 2017 at 12:18 am

There is an undocumented hook for the user field

acf/fields/user/query
acf/fields/user/query/name={$field_name}
acf/fields/user/query/key={$field_key}

This works just like the same hook for a relationship field that is documented here https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-fields-relationship-query/.

The arguments are those for the WP get_users() function https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users, you can set the “exclude” argument to the current user and that should remove them from the list.

• MatTeague

• March 3, 2017 at 10:26 am

Hi John Huebner,

Thank you so much for the help. It worked great.

Many thanks,

Mat