best way to change a field name?

[jamie]

that would be great, just a definitive list of where to look would be great

yeah that's not really a way of handling it, its just a way...

[jamie]

Hi Item,

thats an utterly funny translation i wonder what language you speak? feel free to post in your own language i am happy to do...

[jamie]

yeah that feels about right i'll have to develop some scripts for this

yuri could you give us a hint as to what db tables/colums one should...

[jamie]

yeah is that the best way? what about all the formulas and workflows?

would be great to have some documentation around this as its a very...

[jamie]

yeah i have looked at scripting it and i feel if i knew everywhere a filed name might show up it wouldn't be too difficult

yuri would be...

[jamie]

i am sure you've got some great incite, it would be great if this was included in the official documentation...

[jamie]

I need to change the names of many fields to comply with a new naming convention, and I was wondering if there is an official way to do this?
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[jamie]

i think this is something we'd use...

[jamie]

there is a section on this forum to hire people, though yeah there can be a lack of external sources like blog posts and how to's

though...

[jamie]

so its not something that can be done or hacked?...

[jamie]

tgr o yeah, apart from tools like dbeaver i do a lot of data mining, data import/export and data manipulation via that. for example our usa branch uses...

[jamie]

o that is a very nice plugin, and i may have a use for it. but this one i want to create control the search via a url

one use case is i...

[jamie]

i am making up a php helper class for the before save formula script and i need to test if a variable has changed.

ie a php version of ...

[jamie]

is there a way to set search variables from the url?

this would be me most useful to share between users, so for example i want to see all...

[jamie]

but its not an normal enum its a text field with limited options still very annoying that it automatically sets historical data, if it really was an enum...

[jamie]

setting historical data a major con, and the fact that it isn't documented is also another con, if your going to make non standard behavior you should...

[jamie]

ahh some undocumented hack, perhaps its time to update documentation or maybe don't automatically set historical data?...

[jamie]

when i create a new enum it will set all records to the default, every single one of them. it should just set it as null...

[jamie]

you might also want to see my composer file, this use a .env file where you see ${WORD}, and no I won't be sharing here

services:

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[jamie]

is very customized to my needs so you may want to remove some items