Permissions by "field", Readonly Fields in Frontent Form

I cam across something I never expected to need, but now I do

I am creating a custom Type of content, and a I want to create a Filed called STATE, flexi already have a state condition but that is for Publish, Unpublished, Draft, etc.

I mean is I want to create a custom type of content called TICKET, and a custom Field called Status.

This status is a SELECT type and the options could be:
- Pending, on Delivery, on Approval by Marketing, how nows, anything could be there.

The problem I have is that I want to a simple user registered to add an article, but I only want to show the group of Support Manager this filed and only the Group Administrator could actually change this field.

Does this make sense? Is it possible with Flexiaccess?

FlexiAccess, currently has only view permission.

The simplest and quickest way to do this is to create a template override for the frontend submit/edit form like this:

1. CREATE THE TEMPLATE OVERRIDE

Create folder
'templates/mytemplate/html/com_flexicontent/items/'

inside the above folder copy file:
'components/com_flexicontent/view/items/tmpl/form.php'

2. Edit and customize the file like this:
2.a Find lines: and replace with:
2.b Also at top of file put, just after:
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
put
3. Go to the field configuration and set a default value(s) for your readonly fields, so that they will have an intial value.

Regards

Thanks for the reply , we will give it a test.

I think I will wait for 1.7 with Flexi to see the new permission. In the new version with ACl, the permission is steel only for view?

Final v2.0 is at least a month away, maybe to use v1.5.6, also the solution i provided, will work very nicely for what you want.

Also there is a way to even override the form.xml file:
check this out:
forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p ... 7#p2375649

Regards