[Vtigercrm-developers] Lazy question on webservices.

[Joe Bordes]

I told you I was off-topic  :-)

Joe
TSolucio


On 21/09/12 18:32, Adam Heinz wrote:
> This is slightly divergent from my take on things.  There is a
> readonly field on the vtiger_profile2field table, which makes me
> assume that you can make the field read only for particular roles,
> which is perfect in this sort of scenario.  Writable for some sort of
> automated import role, read only for everybody else.
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I may be a little off-topic here but when you set a field as read-only
>> it is because that is what you want vtiger CRM to guarantee, you don't
>> want that field being updated through REST, workflow update or anywhere
>> else, so that is what vtiger CRM does.
>>
>> So, how do you fill it in with a value? with direct database access (=
>> SQL update).
>> Where do you execute this direct database calculation and update? in
>> save_module() or an event handler, so it gets executed on all the save
>> events and you are not modifying base vtiger CRM code
>>
>> If you want to update a field via REST, it has to be writable.
>>
>> At least that is how I see it.
>>
>> Have a nice weekend
>> Joe
>> TSolucio
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21/09/12 17:37, Alan Lord wrote:
>>> On 21/09/12 16:31, Adam Heinz wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alan Lord <alanslists-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>> $webserviceField->isReadOnly() == true){
>>>> Hey look!  A read only check too!  I'm telling you, that stuff has got
>>>> to be close to working.  Maybe try to fix that instead of hacking
>>>> webservice?
>>> Hey - I saw that too!
>>>
>>> I'm a bit sceptical about that readonly column though. As it has zero
>>> effect on the UI I think there may be more work to get that to do
>>> something rather than breaking Web Services so I can write to a type 2
>>> field...
>>>
>>> Anyway thanks for being a sounding board. Hasn't got me very far but
>>> interesting nevertheless.
>>>
>>> Have a great weekend.
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>>
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