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#3 Field able to be Deleted entirely
I would like to request that Fields have a Delete button available. Currently, according to your wiki, Fields are simply inactive. I can see the use for that, but I would like the option to delete them entirely. Why? Because I may want to split a field permanently, and then ID them differently, OR I may rent a field elsewhere and lose the lease. To have it in the database in the way makes my list too long. This is certainly a factor in SPIN city farming, where backyards or frontyards are utilized for crops one year, but the homeowner decides to stop after that season. Thanks.
That causes problems with database consistency - if you have seeding or harvesting records for a field, you can't delete that field even if you will never be using it again, because then those seeding and harvesting records would be referring to a field that doesn't exist. There were a few spots in the code where we were incorrectly showing inactive fields in the dropdowns, and some of those have been fixed recently. Maybe try upgrading your FARMDATA to the latest version and see if that helps with this problem? Of course, doing that would wipe out any tweaks that you have made to the code, so you might like to back up those files first. If the problem persists, please let me know which forms you are seeing it in.
I went back through the code, and it appears that we now are only showing active fields in the appropriate spots. You still see inactive fields in some of the report selection pages and in the edit field form because you may want to refer to inactive fields there, but they shouldn't appear in the dropdowns for planting, seeding etc. Upgrading to the current version should fix this problem. Even better, wait a day or two because I'm planning to push out a new version over the weekend.