I cerated a form alter with the file entity media upload browser. I studied this answer of how to alter this form. I then debugged and found that for what I wanted to do, I am in step 4 of the file upload browser as evidenced by the var: $var['#step'] (Integer) 4.
Thus my code so far is:
/**
* Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter().
*
* Form ID = file_entity_add_upload.
*/
function MYMODULE_form_file_entity_add_upload_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
// Check that this is the fields step.
if ($form['#step'] == 4) {
echo 'This is step 4';
// yep the above prints out.
// Set access false for the specified field.
$form['field_usage_restricted']['#access '] = FALSE;
// Add a dsm after to see what's going on
dsm($form);
}
}
You'd think this would get rid of the form field, yet, it's still present. See the dsm below:
I would think that my custom alter FALSE setting would override the TRUE setting but no such luck, the field is still there.
I can use an unset($form['field_usage_restricted']); and that works fine to get rid of the field, but I've learned that ['#access '] = FALSE; is a better way to go, especially when there's ajax in use such as the case here. I do see in the debug that there's a form after build so I wonder if I need to do that?
I tried this on the off chance it would work but still no joy:
if ($form['field_usage_restricted'][LANGUAGE_NONE]['#after_build'][0]) {
// Set access false for the specified field.
$form['field_usage_restricted']['#access '] = FALSE;
}
(Note, my field, field_usage_restricted is not a required field.)
