[Vtigercrm-developers] Layout goes for a toss if Autogenerated field is involved

[Alan Lord]

I've had a couple of customers mention that they really don't like the 
way fields move around between Detail and Edit views...

Al


On 01/07/2021 13:01, nilay khatri wrote:
> Probably, leave the area blank where the non-admin user does not have 
> permission? But yes in that case the UI would become ugly. Adjusting 
> fields for non-admin users, other ideas?
> 
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 4:06 PM Uma S <uma.s at vtiger.com 
> <mailto:uma.s at vtiger.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Nilay,
> 
>     I accept your idea of read-only fields, But if the user has access
>     for limited fields then are we not loading the ui with many
>     unnecessary fields?
> 
>     As the non-admin user don't have access to layout editor, How will
>     they be aware of the field order?
> 
>     On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:27 PM nilay khatri <nilay.spartan at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nilay.spartan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Autogenerated field types are not visible in the Create/Edit
>         view. This leads to few issues:
> 
>         1. The UI is not consistent as per design in Layout Editor, the
>         field positions changes in Create/Edit and Detail view
> 
>         2. Autogenerated field values are unique, so if we are editing a
>         record, should not be the field's value visible (in a readonly
>         fashion). It helps in Data Entry if the user needs to be sure
>         about which record is being edited.
> 
> 
>         Moreover, should the fields be adjusted and layout changed based
>         on the permission in fields etc?
> 
>         Rather, user like it be in the same position as in Layout
>         Editor, if user does not have permission for a given field, the
>         UI should not be disturbed.
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>     Uma.S
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