Flag to display/hide information on frontend

There is no conditional field feature (yet)… and no configuration to set field view restrictions per article by the author, AFAIK. Restrictions/View access is set on field level per type.

So, i think you have to create an additional "flag" field for each of your regular fields.

You could use checkboxes or boolean. You should give them a suitable label and position in submission form template.

In your list or full-view template, check the "flag" field value and condition the regular field output with it.

There is no conditional field feature (yet)…

It is not conditional fields I think. As i understood it is ability for users to set access rights for fields they enter. For example I enter text and I say who can see it only me or public users or registered.

There is no conditional field feature (yet)…

Is it possible in Cobalt?

I do not think it is.

Thanks Sergey,

I overcome on this issue. Now I am thinking of using either Jomsocial or Easysocial. Can you suggest which one is better?

Jomsocial or Easysocial. Can you suggest which one is better?

hard to tell. JS seams more mature but there are more ignorance. ES young but support is great and people who are developing it are good.

I would personally try with ES. But I have no experience to use it in real world scenario.

true, and also I think ES integrates well with Cobalt.

As i understood it is ability for users to set access rights for fields they enter.

Yes, i know. I mentioned there is no way to restrict field access per author. I just tried to re-build the functionality with current Cobalt features. I assumed that Address and profile data is already stored in Cobalt.

If it is possible to store profile data in a special extension, i would also consider CB (Community Builder). 1.9 has a very comprehensive Privacy plugin. BTW, CB2.0 is currently consolidated and in beta3!

JS has to catch-up with access and restriction. I think JSPT (joomlaxi) is still mandatory.

ES is evolving. Privacy, restriction and 3rdParty support needs more work, IMHO. Hence their change log and roadmap. I tend to wait for v2.

Can you please tell me which one is very well integrated with Cobalt and Emerald? The choices are JS,ES and CB.

As I see, it looks like ES is very well integrated with Cobalt and Emerald, but I may be wrong too.

[quote=Brian PAT]As I see, it looks like ES is very well integrated with Cobalt and Emerald[quote]

I am thinking like you. if there are not any other reason to use jomsocial i will go for ES with C8

Just for your information

http://stackideas.com/blog/easysocial-and-cobalt-cck-gives-you-the-best-in-social-networking

Even if ES is not as advanced as JS (which I actually doubt) It has much more potential with Cobalt because they are our friends and we will always find resolution to any problem together. I have 6 people from stackidea in my skype. That is enough to solve any problem very quick.

Sergey,

this is good to know. I like this partnership. It really helps to you and us too.

Regards