That's what I do in the action file. For example, let's say you
want to display the date that a Send Off report was submitted by
the referee, as well as its arbitrary ID number, to an
authenticated administrator. These values cannot change. You
may be tempted to use "disabled" to prevent the administrator
from changing these values, but that results in the values not
getting submitted at all and not appearing if there is a
separate validation error. Instead, display the field value
allowing the admin to edit the field, but disregard their
changes when the form is valid by removing the fields:

else($f->getbutton == 'save' && $f->isvalid);
$f->removefield('so_id');
$f->removefield('date_report');
$db_so->saverecord(
-fields=($f->updatefields),
-keyvalue=($f->keyvalue),
-user=$s_user);

Conversely, I user $f->addfield for situations where I need to
write the filepath of an uploaded file to the database.

--steve


On 10/1/10 at 11:45 AM, inbox_js@solve.se (Johan Solve) pronounced:

>I think you have to conditionally remove the fields as soon as
>you know the formmode.
>That way the unwanted fields don't mess with validation.
>
>At 18.55 +1000 2010-10-01, list@carlestam.com wrote:
>>I have a semi complex form that have more sections to handle on an add than on an
>edit.
>>
>>In the library and content pages I can easily handle that by looking for
>>$fForm -> formmode == 'edit'
>>
>>But how can I differentiate on the config page? So that I don't include the form
>fields that are only relevant on an add.
>>
>>Especially the required fields muck things up since they trigger the form to not
>validate when saving.
>>
>>HDB
>>Jolle
>>
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