How to 'unlock' a field in a CakePHP form when it is part of a hasMany association

Question

I have a form that represents a RewardModifier table in our database. That RewardModifier hasMany RewardOption.

My fo

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. I found adding (the equivalent of) this to the RewardModifier controller did the trick:

public function beforeFilter(){
     $this->Security->unlockedFields = array('RewardOption');
}

Answer 2

Adding the following to the form code worked for me

$this->Form->unlockField('User.id');

Unlocking the fields from within the view files also helps declutter the controller's beforeFilter().

Source: /core-libraries/helpers/form.html#FormHelper::unlockField