User maintenance

[TBriggs]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I tried to add access to my user ID table to Xataface but my Password column doesn't display. Now I kinda understand why this was done, but the upshot appears to be that I can't have the users maintaining the user IDs through Xataface. (I was going to restrict access to this table to users with ADMIN authority). Please don't tell me that I have to teach my users how to use phpAdmin to update the User IDs, because that's much too dangerous, and using Xataface was a way to give them easier and safer database access in the first place!
Thanks for any light you can shed on this conundrum.

[shannah]

Xataface doesn't load passwords, but it will allow you to change them. Can you elaborate a little more on the problem. I'm not sure I understand.

[TBriggs]

OK Steve - I'm sorry, I must have been too tired when I was working on this - I see now that the "Password" does display and allow entry - it just doesn't bring in the existing value, which is absolutely fine.
I have a follow-up question, unless you'd prefer me to open a new ticket.
Is there a way to blank out the input on the New Record form instead of preloading the fields with data from (I presume) the first record?
Thanks,

[shannah]

That shouldn't happen. What version of Xataface are you using?

[TBriggs]

I'm currently using 1.1.5r2.

[shannah]

Are you still on PHP 4? Any reason why you haven't moved on to 1.2.x or 1.3.x?
This is likely a bug in 1.1.x. I recommend at least upgrading to 1.1.6 as it includes a critical security patch over 1.1.5.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/datafa ... ace-1.1.6/

However I doubt that 1.1.6 actually fixes this particular problem (with the new record form being prepopulated).

-Steve