field hidden on the edit tab

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PolderBoy — Thu May 07, 2009 2:00 am

Dear All,

I would like to hide a field on the edit tab.

Been looking for the answer for two days. Couldn’t find it.

The user isn’t allowed to change a field. The program does it in a trigger.

Thanks, PolderBoy

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Martin Pruss — Thu May 07, 2009 7:07 am

Hi PolderBoy

Did you try :

widget:type = hidden

in the fields.ini of that table?

cheers

Martin

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PolderBoy — Thu May 07, 2009 9:12 am

Hello Martin,

Yes I did, but that isn’t what I am looking for i only want it to be invisible in the edit page. It should be vissible in the other pages.

Also it is an enum in the MySQL database. (‘YES’,’NO’) I have found in this forum that there were/are problems with this.

[PDF_JN]
group=Final_info
widget:type=checkbox
visibility:browse = hidden
visibility:find = hidden

What I am looking for is:

visibility:edit = hidden

But that doesn’t work.

If there is a way please explain in a detailed way as I am not a proffesional programmer. I wish I was….

Thank,

PolderBoy

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fongchun — Thu May 07, 2009 9:51 am

I just made a blog post about this that might help you. You can find it here.

It shows you how to make a field uneditable, however it is still visible on the edit form. It might suit your needs. If you need to make it completely invisible on the edit form I can make another post about that since it is a little trickier.

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PolderBoy — Thu May 07, 2009 12:57 pm

Perfect,

It isn’t exactly what I want but it works. The user isn’t allowed to change the value so if he sees the value that’s ok.

But where do I put this code? It is php so it has to be in a php file. But which one?

Thanks.

Polderboy

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shannah — Thu May 07, 2009 1:49 pm

That would be in the delegate class for your table. See the getting started tutorial for information on delegate classes.

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PolderBoy — Thu May 07, 2009 2:31 pm

Dear All,

Thank you.

Please believe me when I tell you that I have read the tutorials backwards and forwards several times. Printed them and read before going to bed.

I just can’t get my fingers behind it. (Dutch proverb)

Probably beacause I am not an object orientated programmer, yet.

Thanks again,

PolderBoy

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fongchun — Thu May 07, 2009 2:54 pm

Well glad we can help!