[Vtigercrm-developers] Readonly fields changes are not tracked neither supports workflows

[Prasad]

Hey Matus,

Good to hear from you.

My understanding could be limited - so I wanted more input from everyone
here
who have seen business needs more handson and deeper.

I would be happy to collate the points on this tracker
<https://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/issues/1633>.

Regards,
Prasad

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 6:17 PM Matus Sopko <sopko at its4you.sk> wrote:

> Sorry Prasad, but you never has this needs ?
>
> Field A
> Field B
> Field C = A+B
>
> We want to have Field C like createdtime, modfiedtime. It's calculated
> with WF, after save,.... and we don't need display this field C in
> create/editview. We need calculate it and show in detailview.
>
>
> S pozdravom / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Ing. Matus SOPKO
> IT-Solutions4You s.r.o.
>
> Dňa 23. 7. 2021 o 14:32 Prasad napísal(a):
>
> Please provide some use-cases so its easy to understand the need.
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:01 PM nilay khatri <nilay.spartan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If we add a readonly field, we can not update its value using API, we
>> need to do a direct database query. And hence updates are not tracked
>> neither workflows can be set.
>>
>> Ideally one would expect the readonly fields to be available in workflows
>> and that we can update its value via API, such as in an event handler to
>> keep a count of Opportunities in Contacts.
>>
>> If we had support from workflows, it would be so easy, but currently we
>> need to implement code for that. Also for what has to happen next, such as
>> if count is greater than a certain number!
>>
>> Correct me if I am wrong.
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