[Vtigercrm-developers] displaytype in fields

[Alan Lord]

Just FYI - Presence meaning is as follows:

> with respect presence value, the valid values are 0,1 and 2 which are interpreted as always visible, hidden, and user controlled visible by default respectively.

I asked this mailing list back in 2010 ;-)

Al


On 12/11/2020 07:55, Martin Allen wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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.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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