Define Metas for certain role (Contributor)

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February 8, 2017 at 8:57 PM #5007

sociality
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Hello,

Nice work! Is it possible to define my metas just for a certain role, like a Contributor?

Thank you in advance.

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February 9, 2017 at 8:32 AM #5011

Anh Tran
Keymaster

Hi, I will work on the Include Exclude extension for that. Currently, it has "user_role" rule (include/exclude meta boxes for a certain user role), but hasn't worked with MB User Meta yet.

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February 9, 2017 at 6:04 PM #5023

Anh Tran
Keymaster

Hi, I've just updated the Include Exclude extension to support "user_role" and "user_id" rules. Please try this.

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February 9, 2017 at 10:36 PM #5026

Jackky
Participant

Also you can use current_user_can() condition instead 🙂

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February 10, 2017 at 6:57 AM #5028
sociality
Participant
Hello,

What do you have in mind? Something like
```
	if ( current_user_can('structure') ) {
		$meta_boxes[] = array(
			'title' => __('Structure Info', 'colours-of-a-journey-plugin'),
			'type'  => 'user',
			'fields' => array(
				array(
					'name' => __( 'Name', 'colours-of-a-journey-plugin' ),
					'id'   => $prefix . 'structure_name',
					'type' => 'text',
				),
),
);
}
```
I am not sure if something like that can work 🙂

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February 10, 2017 at 7:06 AM #5029

sociality
Participant

Also,

Is there a way to make a field as required field?

Thank you.

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February 10, 2017 at 9:03 AM #5032

Anh Tran
Keymaster

Using current_user_can only checks for the role of the current user, not the role of the being edited user. The Meta Box Include Exclude extension can handle that.

To make a field required, you can simply add 'required' => true. Docs here and here.

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February 13, 2017 at 4:58 AM #5066
sociality
Participant
Hello,

I use something like this
```
	$meta_boxes[] = array(
		'title' => __('Structure Info', 'colours-of-a-journey-plugin'),
		'type'  => 'user',
		'fields' => array(
			array(
				'name' => __( 'Name', 'colours-of-a-journey-plugin' ),
				'id'   => $prefix . 'structure_name',
				'type' => 'text',
				'required'	=> true,				
			),
		),
	);
```
The required attribute does not seem to work.

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February 13, 2017 at 12:06 PM #5069
Anh Tran
Keymaster
Just looked at the issue and found that WordPress doesn't validate the user edit form. So the required attribute doesn't work.

You need to use Validation rules, like this:
```
'validation' => array(
	'rules'    => array(
		$prefix . 'structure_name' => array(
			'required'  => true,
		),
	),
)
```
However, this requires the latest development version on Github. I've just added support for user edit form and term edit form in the core.

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February 15, 2017 at 9:09 PM #5108

sociality
Participant

Hello,

Didn't quite understand.

1. Where should I put this code snippet? Inside the "fields" array?
2. For the validation to work do I have to use the development version of the plugin or did you make an update for that?

Thank you.

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February 16, 2017 at 8:36 AM #5116

Anh Tran
Keymaster

Hi,

1. You need to put this code in the meta box parameters, for more info, please read this docs:

https://metabox.io/docs/validation/

2. The current version of Meta Box only supports validating fields when editing posts/pages. I've made and improvement to support user meta and term meta. That feature is available on Github: https://github.com/rilwis/meta-box. I will update the plugin a little bit later when we fix some other bugs.

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February 20, 2017 at 4:44 PM #5139

sociality
Participant

Thank you for the guidance.

It worked.

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