[Vtigercrm-developers] displaytype in fields

[Martin Allen]

What we have managed to learn about the different display types (after
looking at the limited documentation, and years of working on vTiger!) are
that these are the different types:

1 - Displayed both in Detail view and Edit view
2 - Displayed only in the Detail view (Ex. Created time, Modified time)
3 - It is not displayed both in DetailView and EditView,but can be shown in
ListView
Example: Total, subtotal in Invoice Module. These Fields are not tied to
any block.
4 - Added for handling passwords.
5 - used for Inventory/LineItem Fields (so they don't show as a normal
field in a block)
6 - used for 'Starred' fields only (only show on List View and as separate
button on Detail View)

Defining these as constants with descriptive names would be AWESOME!!
Same for ui_type,
but also presence (which has 3x possible values) which we've worked out as
below:

0 = displayed & cannot be hidden via CRM Settings
1 = hidden & can be displayed via CRM Settings
2 = displayed & can be hidden via CRM Settings

What about event types too? (stops all this 'vtiger.entity.beforesave'
nonsense, and by defining them IDE's can handle them better and indicate
errors etc)

Martin Allen


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On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 01:03, Rubén A. Estrada Orozco <rulotec1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> there are, as far as I can see, 6 displaytypes (1 - 6) for fields.
>
> What are they supposed to mean?
>
> If you look into Vtiger_Field_Model you'll see code like this:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Why don't we use constants to give them meaningful names?
>
> the same goes for uitypes.
>
> It's just frustrating.
>
> Saludos
>
> Rubén
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