Remove Organization and Department fields from "Form"

**@ Rick **

re: Need to remove the Organization and Department fields in “Form” to prevent confusion.
This can only be done with CSS. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

div#cn-metabox-section-organization,
div#cn-metabox-section-department {
  display: none;
}

re: Need to force Individual and Private entry types to keep the self-submitting data clean.
Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Form tab. Disable the “Permit the user to select the entry type to be submitted.” option and set the “Default Entry Type” option to Individual.

Unfortunately there is not a real good method to force private. This is within Form where you want to change it, right?

The only thing I can think of is adding a filter that will always force the entry to private not matter what the user sets. Will that be a workable option for you?

@ Rick

It is possible that the theme is loading its custom CSS before Form loads it’s CSS. I would need a link to that page to know for sure and to determine why the CSS does not work. Maybe try added the !important clause:

div#cn-metabox-section-organization,
div#cn-metabox-section-department {
  display: none !important;
}

You are using the latest version of Form, yes? That would be another reason the CSS would not work.

I do not recommend removing it in PHP because then after any updates you’ll have to redo the change. But if you want to you need to remove those fields from the array in the connections_form.php file starting on line 1428.

Here’s the filter that will set every entry to private whenever an entry is added/updated regardless of what the setting is:

Install the Code Snippets plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code:

function cn_force_private( $entry ) {

    $entry->setVisibility( 'private' );

    return $entry;
}

add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_add-entry', 'cn_force_private' );
add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_update-entry', 'cn_force_private' );

Save and activate the new snippet.

Hope that helps!

@ Rick

re: Is there a way to easily do the same for the User’s Admin editing screen? WP allows them access in the top menu and the options are overwhelming for most folks. I’d love to disable it and force them to only use Form. You’d have to edit the Connections admin CSS to do the same which would get overwritten on each update meaning you’d have to add it again. It’s probably easier to use a plugin to disable the admin bar:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-bar-disabler/

re: private Because the entry is private the details are private

re: Do you have an addition to the filter that would accomplish this last change? Sorry, no, not really. Who would need to set unlisted, admins only? Maybe added a capability check so admins can set public/private/unlisted will do?
function cn_force_private( $entry ) {

    if ( ! current_user_can('manage_options') ) $entry->setVisibility( 'private' );

    return $entry;
}

add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_add-entry', 'cn_force_private' );
add_filter( 'cn_pre_process_update-entry', 'cn_force_private' );

• This reply was modified 11 years, 9 months ago by Steven Zahm. Reason: Fix code typo

@ Rick

Thanks! I fixed the typo.