PlainText drop-in replacement that can be set to disabled, hidden or readonly.

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.7.0 or later.

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To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require mmikkel/incognito-field
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Incognito Field.

Incognito Field adds a custom FieldType to Craft CMS, called Incognito. Incognito fields work exactly like regular PlainText fields, except that they can be configured to be disabled, readonly or hidden for element editor forms.

A good example use case for Incognito is whenever you need a field that shouldn't be editable via the CP – e.g. if you want to save some data from a feed or external API on your element model.

Incognito Field works both standalone and inside Matrix blocks.

Create a new field (or convert an existing Plain Text field) as Incognito Field. Select the rendering mode you want in the Mode setting to make the field hidden, readonly, disabled (or a regular, visible and editable PlainText field). optionally override the mode in Mode Override which you can find in the advanced field settings.

You can use Twig in the Mode Override setting field to optionally override the rendering mode. A good use case example is to have the field render as an editable PlainText field for admin users, but be hidden, read only or disabled for everyone else.

Render as an editable PlainText field if the element is an unsaved draft:

{{ element.getIsUnsavedDraft() ? 'plain' }}

Render as an editable PlainText field for admin users:

{{ currentUser.admin ? 'plain' }}

Render as a visible, read-only field for users in a particular user group:

{{ currentUser.isInGroup('editors') ? 'readonly' }}

Render as an editable PlainText field for users that have edit site permissions for a particular site:

{% set site = craft.app.sites.getSiteByHandle('germany') %}
{{ currentUser.can('editSite:' ~ site.uid) ? 'plain' }}

This plugin is provided free of charge and you can do whatever you want with it. Incognito Field is unlikely to mess up your stuff, but just to be clear: the author is not responsible for data loss or any other problems resulting from the use of this plugin.

Please report any bugs, feature requests or other issues here. Note that this is a hobby project and no promises are made regarding response time, feature implementations or bug fixes.

Pull requests are extremely welcome