The confusion was my original posting containing 2 separate items. 1) request to add readWriteType and valueType into entity:SystemProperty. 2) A question about user specific properties.
This reply addresses item#1. I request to add 2 fields called readWriteType (formerly called accessType) and valueType to entity:SystemProperty. For each entry of entity:SystemProperty, valid values for readWriteType is 'hidden', 'readOnly', and 'readWrite'. The valid values for valueType is 'TEXT', 'NUMERIC', 'BOOLEAN', 'DATE', 'LIST', etc. The reason for these 2 new fields is to help with visibility and validation purposes. For validation, when ofbiz outputs html to the browser, an entry with valueType=DATE, for example, would indicate that a date value is expected and hence ofbiz could add a javascript calendar to help a user pick a date for that entry. On update of entry at postback, ofbiz could validate that it is indeed a date value before storing to database. Regarding readWriteType field. This would be used to control the visibility of an entry to the user. Note, this has nothing to do with ofbiz security.Even when a user has authorization to view a page showing the entries of entity:SystemProperty, there could be fields that should be hidden or readOnly. These fields are normally manipulated by the ofbizDeveloper and not meant for the ofbizOwner to manipulate. This might seem strange for a non-multitenant ofbiz installation but it makes sense when ofbiz is running in multitenant mode. OfbizOwner can configure ofbiz to behave differently for each tenant. The tenant would not be able to see nor manipulate such an entry. Hope this clear things up. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Re-Request-for-enhance-entity-SystemProperty-tp4709235p4709642.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
