[Resolved] Optionally Change Password, when editing Profile

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[theW]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Let logged in users have the option, to change their password when editing their Profile, if they wanted to.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
Yes:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-training-course/part-8-building-forms-for-editing-user-profile/

Is there a similar example that we can see?
The "Clean Login" Plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/clean-login/
When using their: " [clean-login-edit] " short-code

I tried the following code:

<p><b>CHANGE PASSWORD</b><br>
If you'd like to change your password type a new one.<br> 
Otherwise leave the bellow blank.<p>  
  
<div class="row">
	<div class="col-sm-6">
      
      <div class="form-group">
		<label>Password</label>
		[cred_field field='user_pass' post='user' value='' urlparam='' class='form-control' output='bootstrap']
	</div>
  
  </div>
	<div class="col-sm-6">
      
      <div class="form-group">
		<label>Confirm Password</label>
		[cred_field field='user_pass2' post='user' value='' urlparam='' class='form-control' output='bootstrap']
	</div>
  
  </div>
</div>

But it forces a change of password when updating.
How can I make this optional?

What is the link to your site?
hidden link

[Christian Cox]

Hi, as a workaround you can replace the password fields with generic fields that use the same field names, and set them to be not required:

<p><b>CHANGE PASSWORD</b><br>
If you'd like to change your password type a new one.<br> 
Otherwise leave the bellow blank.<p>  
   
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-6">
       
      <div class="form-group">
        <label>Password</label>
       [cred_generic_field field='user_pass' type='textfield' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":""
}
[/cred_generic_field]
    </div>
   
  </div>
    <div class="col-sm-6">
       
      <div class="form-group">
        <label>Confirm Password</label>
        [cred_generic_field field='user_pass2' type='textfield' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":""
}
[/cred_generic_field]
    </div>
   
  </div>
</div>

I'm escalating this issue to my 2nd tier support team, since it seems like this should not be necessary. I'll update you here when I have some additional information to share.

[Christian Cox]

My 2nd tier support team has offered another option to resolve this.
- Use the standard CRED fields for password and repeat password
- Create a generic checkbox field that says "edit password"
- Use CRED conditionals to show the password fields if the checkbox is checked

Please let me know if either of these workarounds works for you.

[theW]

Thank you so much for both solutions Cox.
I'll try to implement both of your suggestions and let you know how it goes.