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I need help ASAP on how to allow sets of fields to show or not show based on a user's preference.

We're using Views to create member listings and a search form. I need to show or not show certain fields based on a person's preference. We have a yes/no question asking if each set of information can be shared. If they say no, I need to not show the info.

I've got to get this set up ASAP. I thought maybe something could be done with smart groups and Views arguments or something along those lines?

Hi jsimonis,

My coworker recently developed code to do just this.  He's in Senegal right now and will be traveling back to the US tomorrow morning, or I'd point him in this direction.

I know what the general approach was - there's three fields for every actual field.  So to take an example - to allow users to hide/display last name,  there's a custom field lastname_show, which can have the value "yes" or "no".  Then there's a view-only field lastname_public. 

I THINK what happens is there's a Drupal module that gets called when a user hits Save on their profile edit screen.  It runs a PHP routine that sets the value of lastname_public to the same value as fruit, or blanks it out, depending on the value of fruit_show.

I hope that's enough info for you to recreate the solution on your own; if not, ping me in a day or two.  I don't know when he'll be available to work, or what his priorities are, but I can at least point him to this post.

Jon