Make field readOnly in Admin based on another field vlaue

[wind oyster]

How to make a field readOnly based on another field value?

[cosmic lance]

Hello @wind oyster, my first guess is https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/overview

Where there is validation information, and that provides siblingData as a prop

[forest tartan]

Currently readOnly is a boolean, so it cannot be conditional. This will likely be added as a feature in the near future.

You could use access control on the field, and have the field.access.update return false based on other fields in the doc

[sterile spire]

Hi, there's been quite some time, has there been something done with conditional readOnly fields?

I have a couple of fields that I want to be visible with content within them, but enable editing only if a checkbox is set and couldn't figure out how to do that with the access control stuff 😦

[cosmic lance]

@sterile spire We could help you figure out the field.access.update portion

Want to show us what you tried?

[wide acorn]

Definitely need this feature

[cosmic lance]

@wide acorn You can acheive the same behavior using access controls if that is helpful!

[wide acorn]

using access control I can only make it disappear, update or create but what I need is a specific field to be read only when certain value is match. I don't know may be there is a way but I m completely new in this so still figuring out.

[marsh turtle]

I'm going to start looking into this soon. Did you make any progress? @wide acorn @sterile spire

[wide acorn]

@marsh turtle nope, I changed my requirements accordingly.

[untold bear]

If you set update and create to false it has the same effect as setting it to readOnly