Admin on Backend Profile can't leave required fields blank. Why?

[STEVE]

I have a problem. I have two different registration pages. One for a specific membership role and one for a different membership role. They are custom roles I created, but basically clones of the subscriber role with different names. I created a specific set of fields for one role’s registration page and another different set of fields for the other role’s page. Also each registration page has it’s own set of required fields.

Now here is the problem. When I (the Administrator) go into a user’s page on the WordPress Backend to edit any of the info, when I click the “Update User” button it won’t let me proceed because of all the required fields that weren’t filled out. Basically, what I did was I went into the User Meta Pro settings/Backend Profile tab and added ALL of the custom fields to the Backend Profile so that when I edit a user the appropriate fields would be there regardless of which Role the user has. So if I’m editing a user with the custom role of “A” all of the fields are also there for the other custom role “B”. But when the user signed up for role “A” non of the required fields for role “B” were present on the registration form. But they are there in the backend profile when I’m viewing or editing it. Why am I not able to proceed with those required fields blank? I thought as the administrator I could override things like required fields.

Thanks

[Khaled]

Hello,

You can create duplicate field with same meta_key, don’t mark those fields as required and drag them to backend profile.

Thanks.

[STEVE]

OK I just tried what you suggested but this did not work. I made the meta_key identical to the other field and made the new (duplicate) field NOT required. Does the field name also have to be identical?

Thanks.

[Khaled]

Field name doesn’t need to be identical. Only drag newly created not-required fields to backend admin.
Thanks.

[STEVE]

I did. It didn’t work.

[STEVE]

I still need help with this please.

[STEVE]

Still waiting…

[Khaled]

Hi, Please email a temp admin account to support(at)user-meta.com with this topic url.

Thanks.

[STEVE]

I just created an admin account for you and sent the login info (via the WordPress Admin) to support@user-meta.com. My site is nextstar.net. Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks.
STEVE

[STEVE]

Hi. Did you get the log in information OK?

– STEVE

[Khaled]

Hi Steve,

I got your login data. As I said at post #6135, You will need to create duplicate field with same meta_key, don’t mark those fields as required and drag them to backend profile.

For example, I have created Title/Position (ID:108) as a duplicate field of ID:66 with same meta_key “title-position”. But for new field (108), I uncheck required checkbox and checked admin-only, so that, an admin can only see this field.
Now, if you go to http://example.net/wp-admin/profile.php, you can let the field empty, as it is marked as not required.

Optionally, you can change title of newly created field to distinguished between normal and admin only field.
Obviously, you will need to drag out field 66 from backend admin 🙂

Hope it works for you.

Thanks.

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