Re: [binarycloud-dev] Revised entity definition xml

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> 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.

Is there any other place that ptype is used?

I like having the control definition in there, I think it's nice and
convenient (and it gives you iron fisted control over default presentation)

_a