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Conditionals in View - Logged in User Role

By: Erik Meeder | Asked: 05/06/2025
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Erik Meeder asked 2 weeks ago

I am using the conditionals in my View to display an 'Edit' link (for front side editing).

I can allow the user that created the entry to edit their own links. So i add a conditional like this (84 is User ID field):

[if 84 equals="current"]<span style="font-size: 10px;">[frmmodal-content label="Edit"][formidable id=8 entry_id=[id]][/frmmodal-content]</span>[/if 84]

I want another user with an admin role to also allow editing on front end. I have tried a few different methods but they didn't work. One method i tried was adding a hidden field which contains the admin's User ID (field 92). Then i hopped it would watch "current"

[if 92 equals="current"]Conditional content here[/if 92]

This didn't work.

The best would be if there was a condition that would display conditionally based on user role of the logged in user. Is there a built in way to do this? where 'x' is the 'logged-in user role'?

[if x equals="admin"]Conditional content here[/if x]

Does anyone know the proper shortcode for this if it exists?

Thanks

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Rob LeVineRob LeVine Staff answered 2 weeks ago

I'm sure there are a few ways to do this. One I've employed in the past is to use frm-condition with a custom shortcode that returns either the user's role or a string such as "editor" to use for the condition.

Erik Meeder replied 2 weeks ago

thanks for that advice. That led me to the correct information. Specifically this section: <a href="https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/php-examples/#kb-show-content-based-on-current-users-role&quot; target="_blank">show-content-based-on-current-users-role</a>

I added this to my functions.php

add_shortcode( 'has_role', 'ff_has_role' );

function ff_has_role( $atts ) {
$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
'role' => 'prayerlist_admin', // Change default role check
), $atts, 'has_role' );

$user = wp_get_current_user();
return in_array( $atts['role'], (array) $user->roles ) ? 1 : 0;
}

Then i added this in my view:

[frm-condition source=has_role role="prayerlist_admin" equals=1]<span style="font-size: 10px;">[frmmodal-content label="Edit"]formidable id=8 entry_id=[id] edit=1][/frmmodal-content]</span>[/frm-condition]

seems to be working now.
Thanks again.

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