I’d love the ability to customize the UI appearance of an entity’s fields – and most importantly, to be able to make some fields “read only”. A “read only” single-select field would be very useful to define an entity as a particular “subtype” of its Type (or subclass – another roundabout attempt at…

Hi, Matt! Thanks for the ideas - need to think about it. Not sure that we would approve per-field permissions at least in the nearest future. But your request is noted. And we definitely plan to improve permissions and access levels. Btw, that is already possible to create a read-only field using …

[image] Matt_Blais: But Formula/Text fields cannot define rows/columns in a Board view I think formulas can be used for rows/columns, provided the result of the formula is one of the supported data types (e.g. you can’t use text or date fields as rows/columns, but formulas that return a type …

[image] Polina_Zenevich: that is already possible to create a read-only field using API Thanks - where is this possible in the API?

https://api.fibery.io/?shell#primitive-field Described here, I suppose :slight_smile: We use this possibility quite a lot in Fibery, so if you need some help from developers - let us know :wink:

I like one of the ways Google Sheets handles restricted ranges where its just a warning that what you are trying to edit is restricted and there is an option to disable the warning for 5 minutes. Doesn’t even require permissions handing, and when used sparingly is very effective at preventing the a…

@Polina_Zenevich - Regarding UI “read-only” fields: "command": "schema.type/create" … "fibery/readonly?": true, Is there a "command": "schema.type/update" that will allow us to toggle the "fibery/readonly?" status of an existing field? Ideally, Admins would be able to toggle the Readonly sta…

[image] Matt_Blais: Is there a "command": "schema.type/update" that will allow us to toggle the "fibery/readonly?" status of an existing field? Ideally, Admins would be able to toggle the Readonly status of any field, when editing the field definition. The schema can theoretically be modifie…

[image] Chr1sG: No, a read-only field is read-only for everyone, including the ‘Fibery ghost’. So is the value of a read-only field set permanently when the entity is created?

Not necessarily. A formula like Tasks.Count() will change as the number of linked Tasks changes. But the value can’t be changed by automation (incl scripting) or by users.

I wouldn’t expect to be able to change a Formula field. But for the other field types (text/number/Date/etc) – and Rich Text fields – if a field is defined as “read-only”, does that mean its value is frozen at entity creation time? Can we set values of read-only fields when creating an entity via …

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