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How to make a field " not required"

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Friday, October 28 2011, 05:46 AM
chris
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when adding albums it asks for a lot of details in the request form is there anyway to eliminate some of them since we don't need so much detail.

i know that i need to go to


/components/com_muscol/views/album/tmpl/form.php

for example if i wanted to take the format option of when adding a album
what do i need to change on this code (attached) to take it off
if thats the right bit to change im sure you will know?

as hopefully i would like to slim the field options down to only show

Album Name
Artist
Sub Artist
Year/Month
Album Picture
Songs

Buy Link
Review
Meta Data

[file name=format.txt size=998]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/format.txt[/file]

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    Germinal Camps
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    Friday, October 28 2011, 04:18 PM - #Permalink
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    uff.. I can't tell you exactly, just look for the "$this->formats" part, where formats are printed, and crop everything out.

    I am assuming in all this that you are familiar with PHP!!! otherwise I don't recommend this..!
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    chris
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    Saturday, October 29 2011, 11:52 AM - #Permalink
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    no Germi im not familiar with php lol all i know is to copy the file as a back up and edit random things i dont know that much about and see if it works but its a long process :S
    and i shouldn't touch things what i have no clue about but unfortunately that's the only way if there are no other options.

    I think this is a problem as people coming to our sites who like to upload there music collection on our sites like to keep it simple as possible,
    as i would if i wanted to upload my own music as im an artists, if i go to other sites and its easy simple and quick to upload my music i will but if there's lots of information to fill out then i wouldn't lol.
    The upload field there is just a lot of information that could make it much better by taking out the fields that are not needed,
    as people do not like to fill out long forms :S

    is there a possibility that we could have a optional of this a lot of people would like this and would GREAT :cheer:

    Thanks
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    Germinal Camps
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    Saturday, November 05 2011, 02:47 PM - #Permalink
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    I understand what you mean :) but believe it or not, a lot of our users actually asks us the opposite: to offer MANY fields! :lol: I guess everybody has his needs... ;)

    so for now, the only option is to remove the fields directly on the file... sorry about that! did you manage to do it?

    Germi
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