Nico Klasens wrote: > System maintained doesn't mean the user can't change it. It does only > mean that the system will put values in it. An user should know what it > is doing when it is changing the field.
The system can put values in every field (default values). I don't know, but I considered 'system fields' more or less as a synonym to 'unmodifiable'. At least the only thing I could come up with to make sure that 'lastmodifier' is not manually modified by the user, is making it 'system'. That is, I ensured that that 'system' fields don't appear modifiable in generic editors, which made sense to me any how. No need to make exceptions for fields like number and otype any more. You can also set the 'input order' to -1, but that will mean that these fields are not event shown in a generic editor, while they may contain quite relevant information (like lastmodifier) Of course, perhaps the system does not give errors if you try to change it any way (in the case of 'lastmodifier' it does though) Yes, perhaps Field#isModifiable() would have been clearer, and more correct. So, I'm all before introducing that too.. Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen mihxil' Peperbus 111 MediaPark H'sum [] () +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
