Given Fibery’s existing powerful configuration potential, and hopefully even greater abilities here moving forward, I’d like to suggest a rarely seen, but very useful and power feature of Ability to edit a formula field. This is very useful if you are using a formula field to build some activity da…

Basically you’re talking about a sort of “manual override” for the data in one entity’s “formula” field, correct? If so, I’m in favor of this as well. Sometimes there are exceptions to the formula and it’s helpful to be able to do that without some workaround.

Yes exactly, thanks for your typical succinct summary of my meandering explanations of features! Glad that you’d find this useful, hopefully many more aside from the two of us would have good use of this feature!

This is something that was sort of discussed here: [image] Inheritance of Relation Ideas & Features For what it’s worth, the Binders app I have used a fair bit deals with this in the following way: You define a calculation for a field (formula type thing) and you choose o…

Hey, thanks for surfacing that over here (excellent use of linking - a mainstay of Fibery!). What you describe is even more sophisticated and yes, would be great to have. I hadn’t though about being able to on demand determine if the formula runs or not, intriguing!

Hi! Noted your request. but not sure whether we would be able to support that in the nearest future. There are some workarounds and you can make some views, to handle it more carefully. If we will change our minds and will decide to support that - I will text back here :slight_smile:

So, I’m seeing this in one of my tables’ formula-defined name field. That is, it’s editable. Is this a bug?

Anything generated by formula should not be editable. Can you provide us some more details so we can figure out what you’re experiencing.

If you want to have editable field that is filled somehow, you can use Automations to do that. We will never implement editable formula fields due to technical problems

[REJECTED] Editable Formula Field

Ideas & Features

Chr1sG January 11, 2021, 3:13pm 4

This is something that was sort of discussed here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Readonly only formula fields - Add formula to form Ideas & Features	0	183	March 20, 2023
Customize Fields via Rules Ideas & Features flexible-domain	15	985	September 22, 2023
"Enter text" appears in Formula field [FIXED] Bugs & Issues formulas	2	331	November 15, 2022
Formula-generated values only if field is empty Ideas & Features	2	25	February 8, 2026
Formulae via API? API & Programming	5	413	July 7, 2024

[REJECTED] Editable Formula Field

Related topics