frontend form shortcode to exclude certain custom fields

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September 25, 2021 at 6:45 PM #30949

dp
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Is there anyway to exclude certain custom fields (NOT the docs default fields [title, content, excerpt, date, thumbnail]) from the frontend form shortcode ([mb_frontend_form id="meta-box-id"])?

eg.
Page A requires a form with 8 custom fields
Page B requires a form with only 5 of the same custom fields as above
Page C requires 3 of the same custom fields
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September 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM #30961

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

You can use the extension MB Conditional Logic to show/hide a field based on the page ID. Please read more on the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/meta-box-conditional-logic/

September 26, 2021 at 9:24 PM #30982

dp
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just tested but i realize that's done in the frontend to hide the fields (which can still be edited). What i actually meant is to exclude the specified custom fields from the backend, rather than hide using jquery and css

eg. ref -> like [mb_frontend_form id="meta-box-id"] has post_title and post_content omitted from the bkend [mb_frontend_form id="meta-box-id" post-fields="title,content"]

September 27, 2021 at 9:25 AM #30990

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

The extension MB Include Exclude helps you to include/exclude the meta boxes but it does not work with the custom fields. So you can create more meta boxes, assign them to one post type and show them on the frontend via shortcode ID by adding commas. For example:

[mb_frontend_form id="meta-box-id1,meta-box-id2,meta-box-id3"]

Get more details on the documentation
https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/meta-box-include-exclude/
https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-frontend-submission/#shortcode-attributes

September 27, 2021 at 10:33 AM #30991

dp
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nice but that would involve creating more forms, which can be hard to manage. Would ur development team consider something like this.. for a better UX management? Just suggesting, hope u dun mind or what're ur thoughts?

eg. form with 10 custom fields - [mb_frontend_form id='advice-form']
- form [mb_frontend_form id='advice-form' fields='-cf1,-cf3'] to dynamically display 8 custom fields,
- another form [mb_frontend_form id='advice-form' fields='-cf8,-cf9,-cf0'] to dynamically display 7.

September 27, 2021 at 10:43 AM #30992

dp
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the reason for above - the shortcodes can be placed in templates/scopes where the different customized conditions are already set by builders like oxygen, etc

September 27, 2021 at 12:49 PM #30995

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

I'm going to inform the developer team to consider adding this feature to the to-do list for the future development of the plugin.
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