[development] Adding to Profile forms - is hardcoding the only way?

Adrian Rossouw adrian at bryght.com
Thu Aug 10 08:11:43 UTC 2006


take a look at how the filter forms work.

There's help text in the node_example.module about it too.

Essentially you need to create a grouping array, move the original element
into it , and then put your new field into that.
This is all perfectly possible with form_alter


On 8/10/06, Carl Mc Dade <carl_mcdade at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am adding a markup field to a Profile form but only want the field to
> show after a certain textarea. The idea is to use the links in the markup
> field to enter text in the textarea above it. I have set in the working code
> and have no problem with it but am questioning the fact that hardcoding this
> in seems to be the only way.
>
> Is there a way of doing this using the FormsAPI? a grouping syntax?
> Something like show this field only if a related field is present?
>
> Is there a hook for FormsAPI that would help?
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
>
> Carl Mc Dade
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