PageAutoComplete fieldtype and hidden pages bug

[tiagoroldao]

I've been trying to use the PageAutoComplete fieldtype to connect some autors (teachers and students) to a particular work, but allowing to set unpublished (or hidden) student and teacher pages as well. For that, I've established a filter:

template=teacher|student, include=all

or

return $pages->filter("template=teacher|student, include=all")

In any other compatible fieldtype, it works just as it should, using php code or just the selector, showing me every teacher/student. But using the PageAutoComplete, it never finds the hidden or unpublished pages.

Is it a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

[ryan]

PageAutocomplete actually uses the ProcessPageSearch AJAX API which doesn't allow "include=all" except from Superuser. This is for security reasons. Try changing it to "include=hidden" which should at least enable you to show the hidden (though not unpublished) pages.

[tiagoroldao]

Thanks for the reply! Just tested it, using a superuser login as well as a regular editor one, and both don't work, with either include=hidden or include all, for both hidden and unpublished pages..

[ryan]

Okay I think I tracked down what the issue was. Looks like ProcessPageSearch just didn't support include=hidden directives in the AJAX query. I've updated it so that it does, if you want to try the latest. Let me know if this works from that end too?

[tiagoroldao]

Like a charm, and like you said exactly! Thanks!