Add Listing Readonly Text Field

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  • January 18, 2016 at 8:24 pm #69251

    Fredrik
    Buyer
    Post count: 67

    Hello,

    Is there any way to make a field readonly to the user?

    I want to make the emailfield readonly to not make the users think they can change their username.

    Thanks

    January 18, 2016 at 10:07 pm #69260

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    I’m sure you cannot make a field read-only, but I’m not sure I understand what the problem is. Can you please clarify?

    Thanks

    January 19, 2016 at 7:00 am #69280

    Fredrik
    Buyer
    Post count: 67

    Hi,

    The users think they can change their usernames by changing their email when editing their listings. Then they contact me and wonder why it didn’t change.

    One solution is to do this in css, but then they can just remove the “readonly” part in the code and they can edit it again.

    January 19, 2016 at 4:22 pm #69350

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    I’m not sure why anyone would think that editing the email address in the listing form, would change their username too…

    That doesn’t make any sense.

    How many users did you come across with this problem?

    In any cse, I’m sorry but what you want to do isn’t possible without a cusntomization.

    Thanks

    January 19, 2016 at 7:54 pm #69399

    Fredrik
    Buyer
    Post count: 67

    Their account is based on their email address, so it makes perfect sense that they would think that editing that field changes their username.

    I really thought I missed something about setting the field to readonly but I was apparently wrong.

    For ironys sake:

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    January 19, 2016 at 9:28 pm #69417

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    they are asked an email to register an account and an email (not even mandatory) for each listing they add.

    The email field on the add listing page is not automatically filled with the email of the account.

    There is absolutely no relation between the email address of a listing and the email address of an account.

    There is no way to make a field of a listing read-only, because it isn’t logically needed.

    What if someone really needs to change the email address of their listing?

    If you want to dig into the functions of the add listing form, you can probably change this, however this goes way beyond support.

    Thank you,

    January 19, 2016 at 9:50 pm #69427

    Guust
    Moderator
    Post count: 29970

    Maybe just edit the description in the email custom field, telling your users that the email is only used for the “send enquiry” form. And add instructions as to how to change their login email.
    Just a thought.

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