Designer - Mark entityfields as readonly

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BertS
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# Posted on: 27-Jun-2006 10:38:12   

(Not sure if I should post it in General Beta Feedback or in Designer)

In the designer, it is possible to mark individual field in an entity as ReadOnly. This works fine, but it should be just better if it was also possible to mark the whole entity as readonly. In my current project, I'm working with two catalogs. One of the two is only to retrieve data that is related to the other catalog. I want to work with entities for several reasons. Now I mark all individual fields from the entities from this catalog (one-by-one) as readonly. It should be nice if I could set that once for the whole entity.

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# Posted on: 27-Jun-2006 11:27:39   

You have to know, that I truly hate to say the following but I have to say it: I'm sorry but you're too late for this release. All docs about the dialogs etc. are already finalized. So creating this extra feature not only takes time but also requires us to recreate screenshots etc.

What you can do is not that hard actually: write a simple plugin which sets the fields of all selected entities to readonly. So you can set multiple entities to readonly in one go if you want to. simple_smile

Frans Bouma | Lead developer LLBLGen Pro
BertS
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# Posted on: 27-Jun-2006 17:18:42   

No problem, I fully understand that it isn't possible in the current release. For now, it are only a few entities that I have to do, so I think (for me, without any experience in writing plugins) it costs fewer time to do it manually. And I'm sure the option will be available in a next release wink

But thank you for the tip, I didn't even think about plugins. simple_smile