{"id":11104,"date":"2016-04-08T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.belvg.com\/?p=11104"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:28:19","slug":"how-to-hide-a-field-on-a-product-edit-page-in-magento-backend-using-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belvg.com\/blog\/how-to-hide-a-field-on-a-product-edit-page-in-magento-backend-using-observer.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide a Field on a Product Edit Page in Magento Backend Using Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is a specific set of fields that are displayed by default on the product settings page. However, there can be certain conditions when the fields should not be displayed, for instance: Minimum Sell Price attribute should be editable for the Admin access level users, but others should have no access to this field.<\/p>\n

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Add a new event to config.xml  core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_befor<\/strong><\/p>\n

<adminhtml>\r\n   <events>\r\n       <core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before>\r\n           <observers>\r\n               <belvg_minsellprice_hide_attribute>\r\n                   <type>singleton<\/type>\r\n                   <class>belvg_minsellprice\/observer<\/class>\r\n                   <method>removeAttribute<\/method>\r\n               <\/belvg_minsellprice_hide_attribute>\r\n           <\/observers>\r\n       <\/core_block_abstract_prepare_layout_before>\r\n   <\/events>\r\n<\/adminhtml>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Then add the following code to Observer.php<\/p>\n
public function removeAttribute(Varien_Event_Observer $event)\r\n{\r\n   $block = $event->getBlock();\r\n   if (!($block instanceof Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Edit_Tabs)) {\r\n       return;\r\n   }\r\n\r\n   \/\/ add your conditional check here\r\n \r\n   $editableAttributes = $block->getProduct()->getTypeInstance()->getEditableAttributes()\r\n   unset($editableAttributes['min_sell_price']);  \/\/ Remove fields which you need hide\r\n \r\n   $block->getProduct()->setData('_cache_editable_attributes', $editableAttributes);\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
As a result the field Minimum Sell Price will not be displayed on the product settings page.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a specific set of fields that are displayed by default on the product …","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":11106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magento","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t