[Vtigercrm-developers] displaytype in fields

[Martin Allen]

Yes, this is the old UI Type documentation -
https://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/UI_Types
As you'll see its very different compared to your list!!

Like the idea of putting brief description as a comment in your list

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On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 17:28, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco <rulotec1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Martin, I think I did cover them all. I actually did something very
> similar to the query suggested by Alan. I ran:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT(uitype), fieldname, fieldlabel, tablename FROM
> vtiger_field ORDER BY uitype;
>
>
> With that query you see all fields that use a specific uitype side by side.
>
> I suspect that many of the uitypes were created because of a lack of
> awareness of already existing uitypes that could be used. I also suspect
> that uitype 255 was probably created by someone thinking the uitype was the
> length of the field.
>
> I'm not sure about the idea of creating documentation for uitypes. The
> problem with that is that the code and the documentation quickly start to
> diverge and then the only thing you can trust is the code itself. I prefer
> creating expressive code that doesn't need documentation. Maybe we could
> add more comments to each constant. If I recall correctly there used to be
> a uitypes list somewhere (the old wiki maybe?).
>
>
> Saludos
>
> Rubén
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 2:37 AM Martin Allen <martin.allen at clystnet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Are all of those covered in your commit Ruben?
>>
>> Would be good if the vTiger developer documentation was updated to
>> include this full list and give an example of each field type and/or a
>> description of what's different about each one - i'm particularly intrigued
>> by :
>>
>> const UITYPE_POTENTIAL_REFERENCE = 76;
>> const UITYPE_QUOTES_REFERENCE = 78;
>> const UITYPE_SALESORDER_REFERENCE = 80;
>> const UITYPE_VENDOR_REFERENCE = 81;
>>
>> Why do these modules have their own reference field UI types??
>>
>> Martin Allen
>>
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>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 07:55, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/12/2020 00:50, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco wrote:
>>> > Thanks Martin!
>>> >
>>> > It turns out there are a lot more uitype codes than I imagined. Many
>>> of
>>> > them seem to be redundant:
>>> >
>>> https://code.vtiger.com/ruben.estrada/vtigercrm/commit/a8fd66c525a59a174dc275985ce73e6c71793ab2
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> If you run "SELECT DISTINCT(utype) FROM `vtiger_field`;" you get:
>>>
>>> 1
>>> 2
>>> 3
>>> 4
>>> 5
>>> 6
>>> 7
>>> 8
>>> 9
>>> 10
>>> 11
>>> 12
>>> 13
>>> 15
>>> 16
>>> 17
>>> 19
>>> 20
>>> 21
>>> 22
>>> 23
>>> 24
>>> 25
>>> 26
>>> 27
>>> 28
>>> 30
>>> 31
>>> 32
>>> 51
>>> 52
>>> 53
>>> 55
>>> 56
>>> 57
>>> 58
>>> 59
>>> 61
>>> 63
>>> 66
>>> 69
>>> 70
>>> 71
>>> 72
>>> 73
>>> 75
>>> 76
>>> 77
>>> 78
>>> 80
>>> 81
>>> 83
>>> 98
>>> 99
>>> 101
>>> 104
>>> 105
>>> 106
>>> 115
>>> 116
>>> 117
>>> 156
>>> 255
>>> 357
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
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