Automatically exclude HTML block fields

Hi @markhewes,

Fields can be disabled by default. Sections are excluded by default when you enable that setting on the main settings page.

I’ll try to provide a hook you can add to your functions.php which disables all html fields later today.

This should help you out:

// Handle HTML Blocks like section fields, and disable them if the setting is true.
add_filter('gfexcel_transformer_fields', function ($fields) {
    if (!array_key_exists('html', $fields)) {
        $fields['html'] = 'GFExcel\Field\SectionField';
    }

    return $fields;
});

Be sure you have the sections turned off (this is the default settings).

Hope this helps you out.

Perfect! Thanks so much. Could I also adapt this to exclude other field types? Credit Card, for example?

Yes this should be possible. in that case it would be:

add_filter('gfexcel_transformer_fields', function ($fields) {
    if (!array_key_exists('html', $fields)) {
        $fields['html'] = 'GFExcel\Field\SectionField';
    }
    if (!array_key_exists('creditcard', $fields)) {
        $fields['creditcard'] = 'GFExcel\Field\SectionField';
    }

    return $fields;
});

But repeating those lines for even more can be a bit annoying, so something like this would be even better:

// Disable these field types if sections are invisible.
add_filter('gfexcel_transformer_fields', function ($fields) {
    // add types to this array
    $disable_field_types = [
        'html',
        'creditcard',
    ];

    foreach ($disable_field_types as $type) {
        if (!array_key_exists($type, $fields)) {
            $fields[$type] = 'GFExcel\Field\SectionField';
        }
    }

    return $fields;
});

It is possible I’m updating these field types in the future, thats why I added the array_key_exists check. If I provide a specific field class of my own, that will take precedence. But for now I have no such ideas ??

Thanks!