Please show the actual code where you assign/define the virtualFields,
as your example does not look correct at first view!

Are you using MySQL or PostgreSQL?

Enjoy,
   John

On Feb 19, 10:50 pm, dreamingmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a virtual field to use in find('list') on the Aro
> model in cakes Acl component. Since I'd rather not mess with the Acl
> files directly, I created the virtual field in a controller when I
> needed it, something like this:
>
>  Aro->virtualFields = array ('name' => "CONCAT(id, \": \", alias)");
>
> This does create the virtual field, but not in the array with the
> other fields. Here's what I get:
>
> Array
> (
>     [Aro] => Array
>         (
>             [id] => 1
>             [parent_id] =>
>             [model] => Group
>             [foreign_key] => 1
>             [alias] => administrators
>             [lft] => 1
>             [rght] => 4
>         )
>
>     [0] => Array
>         (
>             [Aro__name] => 1: administrators
>         )
>
> This makes the find('list') result return a set of empty elements.
>
> If I edit the Aro model directly to create the virtual field like
> this:
>
>         var $virtualFields = array(
>             'indexed_name' => 'CONCAT(Aro.id, ": ", Aro.alias)'
>         );
>
> I get what I would expect:
>
> Array
> (
>     [Aro] => Array
>         (
>             [id] => 1
>             [parent_id] =>
>             [model] => Group
>             [foreign_key] => 1
>             [alias] => administrators
>             [lft] => 1
>             [rght] => 4
>             [indexed_name] => 1: administrators
>         )
>
> That doesn't seem like a good solution though. Any suggestions?
>
> Don

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