Immutable fields

Archived from the Xataface Users forum.

marksawers — Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:16 pm

I’d like to display fields with immutable values, e.g. a primary key, either as static labels or as a disabled form input element. The widge:type=static shows it as a label, but when I save it complains that the field value is missing. I can’t use the widget:atts:style either, as input elements apparently don’t take direction on disabled state from style.

Suggestions? Thanks!

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shannah — Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:02 pm

Best to use parmissions for this.

e.g. if your field name is ‘fooID’, then define a method in your delegate class:

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function fooID__permissions(&$record){     return Dataface_PermissionsTool::READ_ONLY(); }

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marksawers — Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:32 pm

That works for edit but not for add. The field on the create new record form has no input! I guess if my PK was an auto-increment this would work, but in this case it is not.

Any other ideas? Thanks!

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shannah — Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:36 pm

So you need this field to be editable on ADD but not after it has been added?

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function fooID__permissions(&$record){     $perms =  Dataface_PermissionsTool::READ_ONLY();     $perms['new'] = 1;     return $perms; }