Allow editing of own content but not show 'node settings' block

Question

Hello all and happy new year! ..

I have a question that I thought would have been answered before, but could not find anything..

I want users of a certain role to be able to edit their own content (nodes of a specific content type). This all works well. However, they can also see the 'Node Settings' option, which is a block on the right hand side with settings such as: 'CSS class(es), layout box' etc. (see picture below)

I don't want the above settings to be available to the particular role, although that role would have the right to edit the node - in other words, I want them to be able to alter content, but not be able to mess around with css classes, layout boxes and anything like that ...

Ideally, I would like that whole 'Node Settings' block to be available only to administrators, and not to users of any role - even if they do have permissions to edit the content of that particular node.

I looked carefully into permissions and searched the web, but could not find anything ... My feeling is that this should be done as it must be quite a frequent case ..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I think that this is quite easy using hook_form_FORM_ID_alter like this,

function MY_MODULE_form_node_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  $current_user = \Drupal::currentUser();
  $roles = $current_user->getRoles();
  if (in_array('YOUR_ROLE', $roles)) {
    unset($form['...']);
  }
}

if you don't know what the name of the element is called, try to find it using kint($node) if you have devel installed.

Hope it works for you.