Re: [binarycloud-dev] Revised entity definition xml

[John D. <jo...@we...>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alex Black wrote:

> > I'm unclear on the above uicontrol element. You shouldn't need anything like
> > that since it can be determined based on your field descriptions..
> 
> What about, for example, a password field?
> You're putting that in a text field in the database, and doing some simple
> validation on it like "can't contain tags or +8bit chars" but you aren't
> explicitly marking it as "password"
> 

Right .. so the way we have dealt with that thus far is you leave type set as
'text' and you have another type field (ptype) set as 'password', which means
that the password control will be used as opposed to a generic text control for
display/editing purposes, but internally the data is still stored as text.

John

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