Espo adding a 'C' before my entity names

[Emmker]

Hi.
Whenever am creating a new entity in the entity manager, I get a letter added to the start of my entity Name.

For example, the I create an entity named 'Test', when I click on Create button, the entity that is created is 'CTest'

I have created many other entities in the past in the same instance, I have checked if there is a duplicate entity name, I have tried many names with the same result.

is it a bug?

espocm version: 8.2.2
php version: 8.1
DB: MariaDB

[lazovic]

Hi Emmker,

It is a new feature of EspoCRM v8.2: https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/issues/2988.

[Emmker]

I see.. Thank you, thought I was going mad for a minute.

[shalmaxb]

I thought about one question regarding this.
Sometimes you have to use the entity name in formulas, relationship names etc.. Will I have to put the c in front as well? What about formulas created before this feature was added. Will I have to adapt all formulas, where the entity does not have the c in the name?

[esforim]

All new field will required it. In a way it not too bad of a change. Now that I know it add a c, whenever I use formula related to my custom field I just type c and go from there. It will not mix with original field.

However like many people, we still have custom field at the moment without c, so it a mixed bag.

[yuri]

Nothing needs to be fixed.

[rawiri]

Hi, the idea behind the "C" makes sense, and I like it.

Here is my question:
How do I add it to all of the entities I have previously created?

[esforim]

I recommend just keep it as is honestly, else you will run into error because you forgot to fix some Formula, Workflow, etc.

[yuri]

Hi, There's no simple way to convert fields and links other than manually.

There's a command that renames a custom entity type. Make a backup before running. https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/issues/2318