User form plugin doesn't show please select but renders logged in user

[futuron]

Hi,

I have a form in the backend of a J3.3.6 with the latest Fabrik Github.

The 'user form element' is loading the logged in user but I want it to be 'please select'. The user creating the form isn't able to set the user for that element, someone else (with the rights) will do that in a later stage. But now all forms are saved with the user that created the row. There isn't an option in the element to set not to auto select the logged in user.

How would I be able to do this?

 

[troester]

Do not use the user element but a dbjoin element to #_users.

 

[futuron]

Sounds simple But... what i want is to notify people based on the user selected there. So would i have to mess around there with cascadig dropdowns or something then?

 

[cheesegrits]

Not sure what you mean by "notify people"?

The user element is just an extension of the join element (literally, it "extends" the join element's PHP class), and just adds the bit you don't want, like automagically setting itself to the user creating / esiting the form.

So anything you had planned to do with the user element should work with a join to the #__users table.

-- hugh