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As others are interested in this functionality this is how I went about what I need in the end:

I took the PHP code and implemented it in Snippets (or in functions.php etc). This allowed me to set the 'required' setting for each field as a variable. I then got the user role in code before the form creation happened and set the variable accordingly.

I've made further tests and this is the result. All value updates made by the admin user through the form are working fine.

All value changes made by a standard user are failing. I've even reduced the form to it's minimum level as below with only one remaining field which still fails to save.

I wonder if there are settings against the user role which I need to check to ensure the values are saved to the database? I use Members from MemberPress for the sole reason of creating my custom users roles if there may be an issue there?

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', 'test_cip_pet' );

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

    $meta_boxes[] = [
        'title'   => __( 'TEST - Pet Details', 'your-text-domain' ),
        'id'      => 'test_pet_details',
        'type'    => 'user',
        'include' => [
            'relation'         => 'AND',
            'user_role'        => ['um_client', 'administrator'],
            'edited_user_role' => ['um_client'],
        ],
        'fields'  => [
            [
                'id'     => $prefix . 'group_pet_details',
                'type'   => 'group',
                'fields' => [
                    [
                        'name'        => __( 'Specify details for each of your pets.', 'your-text-domain' ),
                        'id'          => $prefix . 'group_pet',
                        'type'        => 'group',
                        'collapsible' => true,
                        'group_title' => '{pet_name} - {pet_breed}',
                        'clone'       => true,
                        'max_clone'   => 20,
                        'add_button'  => __( 'Add another pet...', 'your-text-domain' ),
                        'fields'      => [
                            [
                                'name'     => __( 'Pet\'s Name', 'your-text-domain' ),
                                'id'       => $prefix . 'pet_name',
                                'type'     => 'text',
                                'required' => true,
                            ],
			],				
                    ],
                ],			
            ],
        ],
    ];

    return $meta_boxes;
}

I've tried increasing but I already had it set pretty high. I was on 100000 before and bumped it up to 1000000 with no change in behaviour.

It looks like the php.ini works fine where it is and changing the value there is changing the reported value from phpinfo(). Changing it to 100000 had no effect.

One thing I have noticed is that the field group structure is as follows:

1 - Parent
2 - Group
3 - Fields & Groups

I counted the number of objects at the #3 here and there are exactly 100 of these in the group at #2. When I reduce this to 99 objects it correctly saved the settings but reintroducing any field type to take the count back to 100 caused it to fail.

Is there a limit on the number of fields (ie array index limited to 2 digits perhaps) that can exist in a group like this? If so, how do I extend the limit?

It looks like there was a bug somewhere in the field generation code. I tried a number of the other fields in the form and they were all fine as an admin column. I also tried changing the field type of the one that wasn't working and it still wouldn't appear. I then created a new field using the same ID (having changed the ID of the non-working one) using all the same settings and it worked fine. All I can conclude is that there was some error behind the scenes but it is working fine now so all good.

I've been using the role editor part of Members for this which I assume is doing the same thing.

In fact I just solved my immediate ordering issue. I simply changed the publish dates of the carious field groups and that changes the order they appear in. A bit of a 'hack' I suppose but it does what I want for now 😉

Hi Long,

So here's an example. In the User admin screen in the WP Dashboard you get the various WP generated fields appearing first. Then you get any connections created with MB Relationships. After this you get any Custom Field Groups created that are set to appear for Users - these appear in reverse order of when they were created by the looks of it.

I'd like to be able to change these orders so that I can place the most commonly accessed Custom Field Groups at the top and have the less commonly accessed ones lower down.

In Views there is an Order setting which handles the order priority. I was looking for something similar to this perhaps. Or if there's some code snippet I can pop in to choose the order if there's no priority in there. It seems that the order is set by creation date now which makes me think there's something behind the scenes somewhere that handles it.