[Vtigercrm-developers] Lazy question on webservices.

[Adam Heinz]

Have you played around with the readonly field setting introduced in 5.3?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to create/update a module's fields using webservices when they
> are displaytype 2. Or I need a suitable alternative to achieve the same
> result...
>
> My tests show that using the Webservices Create api, the routine works
> (in that it doesn't error and new records are created), but the fields
> with displaytype=2 show as empty after the routine has run and in the db
> the fields are null.
>
> Basically, we have a scenario where quite a lot of data is being sucked
> in and regularly updated from an external system and is there just for
> searching and analysing, but must not be edited. I don't want to write
> directly to the db because, amongst other things, we would bypass
> triggering Workflows...
>
> TIA
>
> Al
>
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