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Re: [Tiki-devel] Tracker Field Type in 8.0 SVN Trunk
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From: Louis-Philippe H. <lph...@lp...> - 2011-10-11 16:28:28
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I don't have time to deal with this right now. Don't add it in edit. Add it as a separate operation for future concerns. Edit is a bad place to do it anyway, and because the options are now as separate fields, the fields won't match anymore. -- LP On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, geoff@enmore <ge...@en...>wrote: > +1 from me as well > > I've had to change field types very often during the development stage of a > tracker project and whilst the data can go a bit 'screwy' I've never > experienced anything that couldn't be easily sorted out > > geoff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonny Bradley [mailto:jo...@ti...] > Sent: 11 October 2011 11:54 > To: Tiki developers > Subject: Re: [Tiki-devel] Tracker Field Type in 8.0 SVN Trunk > > > Have to admit i've been in to my databases to change field types a few > times, mainly that clients have created with the wrong type - so it does > seem to be needed and useful. I suppose it could go on the advanced > section. > > It's all TEXT anyway, no? > > jb > > > On 11 Oct 2011, at 11:36, Xavier de Pedro wrote: > > > One relatively common (for me and my users) use case for allowing > changing > field type is: > > > > Applying a profile (let's say, bug_tracker), rename pages and fields from > "bug" to "inventory", and change from "user" field type to "image" field > type. > > > > If chaning field type is allowed, no manual editing of wiki pages is > needed, and the interface to add items for that tracker is used, etc. And > that's way better for new users scared by the learning curve with trackers. > > > > I would suggest to keep the chance to change field type at users risk of > data corruption (if any), as it has been in Tiki for years. (I've > benefitted > much more from that in the last years than the problems with data > corruption). > > > > Or for the future, some trick could be added to clean data for that field > for all items if field type is changed (after warning for the the tracekr > admin willing to do so). > > > > My 2 cents > > > > Xavi > > > > P.S: And thanks LP for the improvements you are doing with trackers! > > (awesome!) > > > > > > On 23/09/11 15:46, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Yes, the change is intentional. Tiki cannot actually change the field > type safely. Doing it in the past lead to data corruption in many cases and > pretending we can allow to change the field types is not a good thing. > >> > >> If you have no data at all, creating a separate field is not a big > issue. > >> If you have data in the tracker, you have to create a new field and > convert your data manually. > >> > >> The future might introduce an action to change the field type, but it > will need to do it safely. > >> > >> -- > >> LP > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Torsten Fabricius < > to...@fa...> > wrote: > >> Hello Devs, > >> > >> I have seen the new tracker admin dialogues. Pretty nice. > >> > >> But I have realised, that I cannot change the field type anymore - I > would have to do that in the database. > >> > >> Is that by means, or just still in development? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Torsten > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > > security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data > > and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. 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