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How to hide Customer Profile custom fields?

I have added some fields to the Customer Profile shipping and billing types. They are ID fields to maintain consistency with a backoffice system that I am trying to link with Drupal Commerce. Consequently, they mustn't be editable and they don't need to be visible. I have set them as Hidden in Manage Display, but it makes no difference, they are still visible and editable in the Customer Profile edit page. How do I make these fields hidden or at least non-editable by a user editing their profile?

Asked by: Bruno Prior
on September 28, 2014

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I've hidden them with CSS, but it would be better if they weren't part of the form, rather than using styling to make them not show.

- Bruno Prior on September 28, 2014

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Yes, that would be the core way to do it. I have installed the Field Permissions module as an easier option for now. It allows me to prevent individual fields from being viewed and/or edited by specified roles. It's not as flexible as hook_form_alter, which I guess (for instance) would let me disable editing of fields that were nevertheless viewable in a form, which isn't possible with Field Permissions, so far as I can tell.
It just seemed like the default behaviour was not as you would expect.

Answer by: Bruno Prior
Posted: Oct 4, 2014
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hook_form_alter()?

That's my quick guess. Any form in Drupal can be modified by hook_form_alter()s.

Josh Miller
Answer by: Josh Miller
Posted: Oct 3, 2014
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This code should work (and works outside drupal commerce)

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {

if ( $form_id == 'user_profile_form' ) {
$form[OSC_FIELD_NAME]['#access'] = FALSE;
}
}

However when drupal commerce is installed $form_id gets set to views_exposed_form so my code doesn't work. Has anyone found a solution to this outside installing yet another module or hiding the field via css?

senorbond
Answer by: senorbond
Posted: Jul 1, 2015