Meta Box

sorry I mistyped - I meant to say my custom field ID is 'office_address'

So I tried this code in my functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', 'show_customer_company_name' );

function show_customer_company_name( $meta_boxes ) {
    $prefix = '';

    $meta_boxes[] = [
        'title'   => __( 'Customer', 'customer-company-name' ),
        'id'      => 'customer',
        'type'    => 'user',
        'include' => [
            'relation'  => 'OR',
            'user_role' => ['customer'],
            'edited_user_role' => ['administrator'],
        ],
        'fields'  => [
            [
                'name'          => __( 'Company', 'customer-company-name' ),
                'id'            => $prefix . 'customer_company',
                'type'          => 'text',
                'admin_columns' => 'after title',
            ],
        ],
    ];

    return $meta_boxes;
}

It did NOT work. I am logged in the WordPress back end as Administrator, I go to User > test-customer1 (which has the role of Customer) and I still cannot see my custom field 🙁

Please can you provide me with workable code to try in my functions.php file which will fix this.

Many thanks,

Keith

Hi Long, yes you explained, but I did not understand - your explanation was not very helpful, just redirecting me to a documentation page is not very helpful. Also your documentation is not very good (maybe for experienced Meta Box users it is, but not for someone like me who is using Meta Box for the first time).

An example would be to say
"Keith, to achieve what you need, add this code to your functions.php file" followed by the line of code (that is the level of support I have had at Advanced Custom Fields or Toolset).

Anyway - so now, I think I understand what you are saying, that because when I am logged in as the Administrator role, that because that is not the 'Customer' role, that I can't see the field.

So what I need to do, is for the Administrator role to be able to edit the field, BUT the Customer role to just be able to view their 'Company' field when logged in (but NOT to be able to edit it).

Am I correct in saying that I just need to add this line of code to my code in the original thread:

'edited_user_role' => 'administrator',

Is that right? As like I say, your documentation is not very good for a beginner user, there isn't even an example syntax provided for the 'edited_user_role'.

Please consider improving your documentation for beginner users. Also, please can you add it to the 'settings' tab for a field group, so that I can get this code generated correctly by Meta Box itself (as I'm guessing that is the whole point of using Meta Box).

Many thanks for your help,

Keith

Hi there, may thanks for replying and also for the link to the tutorial.

Unfortunately that tutorial doesn't really help - it works as a 'one off', but the whole point of what I am looking to do is to get a simple integration setup which I could carry out on a daily basis (to update a set of data which will change every day). The tutorial you have sent is a work around, but not something that could be carried out regularly (which is why a full integration with WP AllImport would be better).
So in this case I will need to use something other than Metabox for my project. But thank you again for the suggestion.

Have a great day,
Keith