ACL on form fields Topic is solved

[MarkRS]

I have fields in a form that I don't want members of some groups to see. Can I control this in the form xml file? If so, how?

[Webdongle]

In the form (or form override) you could fetch the the group the user is in, then use an if statement to display the field or not?
Or have two forms, one to be seen with one view level and the other to be seen by another. Each could be linked to a menu item with a respective view level?

[MarkRS]

I'd like to just exclude some fields, too few to make a completely separate form.
I know how to do it with php in my default.php (or whatever) template, I might even be able to do it with js, I was just wondering if I could do it in the xml form definition.

[ceford]

You might explore what showon will do. You could have a hidden field containing the user group and then use showon="ugroup:nn". This might be insecure - probably better to use in if block in your template php file.