Hi Chandi, This is a great observation. In the UI the External ID field is available in several different locations (for clients, groups and centers). When you configure mandatory/hidden fields, the UI only has one control rather than having separate fields for the field for clients, groups and centers. This means that you either hide this field for all three or show it for all three.
The v1.0 specification says the following: "External ID- can be hidden separately from client, group and center" (http://mifos.org/knowledge/functional-specs/configuration-options#3_10_Hidden_Mandatory_data_field). My guess is that the UI prototype for the hidden/mandatory fields UI didn't make this functionality obvious so it was not built. So, it is a bug. The UI should allow for separate controls to hide external id for clients, groups and centers. Please go ahead and open this item in the issue tracker. We will decide in triage whether this is something we want to change for v1.1 or wait until later. Thanks for discovering this issue and for raising it on the mifos mailing list for discussion :) Aliya ________________________________________ From: Chandi Datta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:23 PM To: Developer Cc: Aliya Walji; Jaganathan Srinivasan Subject: field_configuration table Hi, Under Mifos db, "field_configuration" table containing three "ExternalId" as field name. When I am changing flag (Mandatory or Hidden) on the UI all three ExternalId's flag changing in the database. Apart from "ExternalId" I found few field having same name. I am using local mifos build with database_version 173. Please let me know if this is correct activities. Thanks Chandi ================================ IBM Global Service Pvt. Ltd. Embassy Golf Links Business Park, Level 3, Block A Indiranagar Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road, Bengaluru 560 071 Mobile : +91-9449828424 Land : -080-2500-3632 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
