Form field/widget mode by permission or role?

Plone Support Add-on Development
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Is there any more graceful way to have form widget mode pivot on permission than to monkey patch plone.autoform.utils._process_widgets?

  • permissions for write, read apply to fields
  • modes ('input', 'display') apply to widgets
  • without patching, there's not a way to achieve synthesis of these functionalities?
    • e.g. "only users with Manage portal permission for form context get 'input' mode on a field, but everyone else gets 'display'.
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EditFom? (And AddForm)

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Can't a PR be merged that add this but keeping backward compatibility?

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There is also the read/write_permission? Fields — Plone Documentation v6

EDIT: you've already mentioned this ... sorry.