I was just curious. Exposing this functionality to the user through
the GUI might create problems I haven't thought of.

Thanks for the clarification Kevin.

The Sunburned Surveyor

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>> No, the ability to specify readonly is currently only available
>> programatically.  My use case was that I wanted to prevent a user to
>> making certain changes to a feature collection.  I hadn't considered
>> that a user may want to add this restriction themselves through a user
>> interface.  Do you think there is a need?
>
> don't know if the user should be able to set it.
>
> Lets start with this easy case, as the main idea is to have this
> functions for databases. However, it is good to expose the info via the
> GUI that an attribute is not editable - this way people may be aware
> that attributes can be editable or not and I assume that at some point
> people would ask for that feature/option if they need it (and pay it ;).
>
> my 2 cents
>
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