WHMCS Feature Requests - prevent clients from editing custom fields

Massoud Alipour commented 24th April

Hello Alexandre,

I just wanted to express my full support for your suggestion regarding the ability to prevent modifications to custom fields in WHMCS. As a user, I've encountered situations where the ability to lock specific custom fields would have been incredibly beneficial for maintaining data accuracy and compliance within our operations. Implementing this feature would greatly enhance our ability to manage client data securely and efficiently. It’s definitely a needed enhancement that would help many of us in the WHMCS community.

Thank you for bringing this up!

Jesus commented 13th November 21

I have 1 topic about this in the forum and no one responds.

https://whmcs.community/topic/310437-block-inputs-custom-fields/

and another of help: https://whmcs.community/topic/293992-prevent-customfieldsave-from-actually-saving/

It is unfortunate that no one knows how to achieve this ...

and even more so that whmcs has not yet implemented it.

Mike Q commented 25th April 18

@Lukasz do you mind posting your code using the hook that would prevent the save?

Thanks.

Lukasz Firaza commented 18th April 18

@Anderson they don't uderstand becouse this request has not enough likes;) They only look on the request with >100 likes.

So, you can use this hook: https://developers.whmcs.com/hooks-reference/everything-else/#customfieldsave
and compare values beetwen save with current value. This is way how you can prevent custom fields this time.
Aditional I added readonly atribute to html input block by JS.

Anderson Pereira commented 18th July 18

Thank you for your tip. I haven't been notified of your reply.

Will try that!

Anderson Pereira commented 18th April 18

Every country has it's own ID that can't be changed or standardized.

WHMCS team, do you understand the importance of that? Today I'm forced to copy my custom fields input to another hidden admin entry, so that I can guarantee that nobody will ever delete it.

Dmitry Golubev commented 21st March 18

Please, WHMCS... It is a legal requirement to have National ID / VAT number uneditable. Either add it as a regular field or add a checkbox for custom fields to make them read-only.

havenswift-hosting commented 19th January 18

Another fairly simple but very useful request that has been around for more than 5 years. Come on please WHMCS, while we all love big functional additions in new versions, it would be nice to get some of these smaller requests added as well

Anderson Pereira commented 3rd October 17

Important feature! Will it be implemented?

nishad commented 28th March 17

Please enable locking in custom fields. when this feature will be ready

nishad commented 28th March 17

Please setup locking of custom fields so that it will be editable only by the admins.

JB commented 20th June 16

And the possibility to "hide" fields is also be useful.

Jose Manuel Giner commented 27th May 16

We use the "Custom Client Fields" to save the VAT number of our customers, we need lock it a a legal requirement.
If the customer need to change their VAT number he need create a new account.
Please, implement it.
Thanks!

com2 commented 11th May 16

I do not understand why this was not implemented from the beginning. When you want the application to be consistent and logical, then you either offer this feature for both standard and custom fields or you don't offer the feature at all.

Jason Ashley commented 17th December 15

Definately worth while, especially for us whom are installing a control panel for the client. This would allow us to set the CP URL, User and pass in WHMCS so that they can reference, but not change. If they happen to change it through the CP, then they would be on their own.

Daniel Lee commented 19th March 14

yes, there are several ccTLD has this requirement, e.g. Taiwan.

the changing permission is only allow for admin