Make field readOnly in Admin based on another field vlaue

fedoraman87422 years ago

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  notchr2 years ago

  Hello

  @740476822193700875

  , my first guess is

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/overview
  
  

  Where there is validation information, and that provides siblingData as a prop

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  jarrod_not_jared

  2 years ago

  Currently readOnly is a boolean, so it cannot be conditional. This will likely be added as a feature in the near future.

  
  
  

  You could use access control on the field, and have the field.access.update return false based on other fields in the doc

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  iamlinkus2 years ago

  Hi, there's been quite some time, has there been something done with conditional readOnly fields?

  
  
  

  I have a couple of fields that I want to be visible with content within them, but enable editing only if a checkbox is set and couldn't figure out how to do that with the access control stuff 😦

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  notchr2 years ago

  @688437818019938326

  We could help you figure out the field.access.update portion

  
  
  

  Want to show us what you tried?

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  s4chinlast year

  Definitely need this feature

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  notchrlast year

  @307222801448960000

  You can acheive the same behavior using access controls if that is helpful!

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  s4chinlast year

  using access control I can only make it disappear, update or create but what I need is a specific field to be read only when certain value is match. I don't know may be there is a way but I m completely new in this so still figuring out.

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  brianjmlast year

  I'm going to start looking into this soon. Did you make any progress?

  @307222801448960000

  @688437818019938326
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  s4chinlast year

  @1090615594568667286

  nope, I changed my requirements accordingly.

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  lealaxlast year

  If you set update and create to false it has the same effect as setting it to readOnly

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  brianjmlast year

  access

  does not effect the

  readOnly

  status/behavior in the UI. See the screenshots.

  
  
  

  This is consistent with the [documentation](

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/fields

  ).

  
  
  

  [Create](https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/fields#create)
  Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to set a field's value when creating a new document. If false is returned, any passed values will be discarded.
  

  
  

  [Update](https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/fields#update)
  Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to update a field's value. If false is returned, any passed values will be discarded.
  
  If false is returned and you attempt to update the field's value, the operation will not throw an error however the field will be omitted from the update operation and the value will remain unchanged.