Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/21219 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: profile.module Category: bug reports Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: pyromanfo Updated by: judah Status: patch i think it is great but i think we were waiting to hear back on the suggestion to provide the option to make some fields hidden from the public AND the user. quote, "...this seemed like the original intent of the PROFILE_HIDDEN patch in the first place, to make certain fields non-editable for users." add to that, "to make certain fields non-editable for users and/or non-visible." Use case - JBFish333 has recently joined one of your drupal forum communities. He has been active for 12 months occasionally helping others. Six months ago he got into a heated debate with other members. He started using profanity and disobeyed the rules 3 times. You warned him that he has to stop and put this behavior in the hidden "Notes" field. He was doing good and then this month he started using profanity again. You checked his notes field and saw his history. Because he has been helping people you warned him again privately that he has one last chance. He has said that it won't happen again. You made mention of this in the notes field. - we don't want JBFish333 to see this profile field. judah Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 24, 2005 - 09:34 : pyromanfo Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/profile_hidden_update.patch (3.28 KB) Here are some updates to the PROFILE_HIDDEN functionality. Basically now if you have 'administer users' access, you can edit these fields and they show up for you in the user's profile when editing. If you don't then they don't show up for editing at all. They still should show up when simply viewing though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 25, 2005 - 12:00 : Dries Not sure about this patch. I'll give it some thought/testing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 27, 2005 - 07:00 : killes@www.drop.org I am not sure the current implementation is too usefull. What about if I want to add fields that users can neither see nor edit (like the roles)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 27, 2005 - 07:04 : judah Having this feature would be helpful to me. But there are some properties I would like to completely hide and some that would be unnecessary to show the user. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 27, 2005 - 14:55 : moshe weitzman This is useful functionality. I have deployed drupal into a few corproations and they often have profile fields like 'title' and 'telephone number' and 'department'. thos fields should be editable only by administrators. thats what this patch allows, if i'm not mistaken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 10, 2005 - 08:43 : pyromanfo Any updates on comitting this? I didn't think to check back because this seemed like the original intent of the PROFILE_HIDDEN patch in the first place, to make certain fields non-editable for users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 31, 2005 - 07:29 : pyromanfo Is this going to be committed?