Fields in Admin Group do not appear on signup form

  • Resolved moorezilla

    (@moorezilla)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Great plugin! Donation definitely coming your way.

    I’m using participants database 1.5.4.9, php 5.5.x, ubuntu, mysql 5.5.x, and WordPress 4.1.

    I created database fields and put all of them in the Participant Info (default, I imagine) group. When I do this, all the fields marked “signup” (checkbox) show up correctly on the signup form.

    If I move any of these fields, however, from the Participant Info to the Administrative Info group, the fields no longer show up on the signup form on the wordpress page, so no data is collected for these fields, and the email, of course, comes through without the uncollected data.

    This isn’t a big deal for me, as I just moved all the fields back to the Participant Info group (doing so makes them show up on the sign up form again), but it’s confusing, as the Administrative Info group still contains the checkbox for “signup,” so it seems like you should be able to add fields from any group to the signup form.

    I think this is a bug, so I’m passing it along. If you would rather this be placed in a bug tracker, just let me know and I’ll move it.

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    This is by design. Each group has a setting called “display” which determines whether the fields in that group are displayed on the frontend. The “admin” group that is preloaded with the plugin is meant as an example of a backend-only group, but that can be changed by checking it’s “display” setting in the manage database field page under the groups tab.

    Thread Starter moorezilla

    (@moorezilla)

    Got it. Thanks!

    Is there any way to override this behaviour? I am trying to give single record management from a pdb_list with a link and need to update Admin fields but not show them to people on the sign up page. Ideally I would like to select which groups appear for edit with pdb_record. Going through the admin list participants is too cumbersome for this application as the pdb_list selection cannot be done on one field.

    There is an Admin checkbox on the Groups tab but cannot find what that does!
    Thanks

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    You can control which fields are shown in any shortcode using either the “fields” or “groups” attributes to name which fields or groups you want shown by the shortcode. Using the fields attribute will not show a field that is in a group that has it’s “display” unchecked, however, so it’s best to use the groups or fields attribute in the record shortcode to control what is seen on the record edit page.

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