How can I hide the Organic Groups Audience selection?

Question

I don't want the OG audience selection to appear on a custom content type I have created for groups. I'm only providing the link to create the custom content within a group so the group they are in is pre-selected and it makes no sense to display it. I can't believe there is not a OG option to turn this off so how can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

You can set #access to FALSE to hide elements like this:

/**
* Implements hook_form_alter()
**/

function yourModule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  switch ($form_id) {
    case 'yourFormId':
      // We should remove the group check box from users, Its always going to be
      // checked for project content type.
      $form['group_group']['#access'] = FALSE;
      $form['group_access']['#access'] = FALSE;
      break;
    }
}

Above I removed the check box that says "group" and group audience.

Answer 2

Look at the FAPI docs and hook_form_alter on your content type. For the appropriate widget try setting the widgets #access key to FALSE. If it's not horribly coupled to OG's interworkings that should work (and assuming its default value is ok). I would recommend doing this for everyone who is not the uid of admin.