No way to hide a field only on the create form but not on the update form ?

[florentpoujol]

• Laravel Version: 8.41.0
• Nova Version: 3.25.0
• PHP Version: 7.4.15
• Operating System and Version: Ubuntu 20.04
• Browser type and version: FF 88

Description:

Fields have the showOn*() and hideWhen*(). methods to conditionally show/hide field from index/details/create/edit forms.

I want my field to be display everywhere except on the create form, but no fidling with the methods allowed me to hide a field only on one of the form, it is always hidden or show on both.

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue on a fresh Nova installation:

Examle :

 // hides the field on both forms
Text::make('test')->hideWhenCreating(),

 // hides the field on both forms
Text::make('test')
    ->hideWhenCreating()
    ->showOnUpdating(true)

// this show the field on both forms
Text::make('test')
    ->exceptOnForms()
    ->showOnUpdating(true)

Thanks for your time.

[florentpoujol]

So I guess this is not possible ?

Due to the name of the methods and the implementation that makes a clear distinction between create and update, I would definitely expect this to work that way ?

[crynobone]

So I guess this is not possible ?

I moved this to Discussion because it seems you having a problem using these features instead of "it's not possible".

I created a demo repo and seems all above working as expected. See nova-issues/issue-3402@19dbc28

[florentpoujol]

Hey crynobone

Thanks for your answer.

It just wasn't working for us, so after investigating the code, I found out we were overriding the removeNonUpdateFields() but calling inside isShownOnCreation()...

So all is good, thanks for your time !