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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

Hi PolderBoy
Did you try :

widget:type = hidden

in the fields.ini of that table?

cheers
Martin

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

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.

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

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

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

Well glad we can help!