Create a secondary form to fill data into an entity

Question

I've an entity that models a contact (I'm using RedHen CRM) and obviously I can fill the data from the usual admin form. But if I want to publish another form for non admin users to insert their data and with less fields displayed, which module (or solution) can I use? I'm using webform, but I'm having some trouble with addressfield...

Answer 1

I don't know about the webform solution/Redhen

but programmatically/basic drupal speaking I would just use HOOK_form_FORM_ID_alter to restrict access to certain form elements based on role/permission. Find the id of the form and have a look at the array via devel or something similar, every field normally has an '#acces' variable already included. Setting those to 0 for the fields does exactly what one expects it would do.

This way you can re-use the standard form for all purposes instead of adding a second one. So future edits to the entity fields will automatically be added to all forms and you don't have to fiddle around with all sorts of secondary processing in the submit handler.