Re: Supposed behaviour of the "visible ids" setting

Timo Stollenwerk <tisto@...> writes:
> I'm currently working on the PLIP to move all control panels in Plone to
> use z3c.form/p.a.registry and I was wondering about the supposed
> behaviour of the "visible_ids" setting.
> 
> On a vanilla Plone 4.2/4.3 it seems this setting does not have any
> effect at all. If it is enabled, there is no additional id field on the
> edit view of a content object and it is always possible to edit the id
> of a content object through the folder_contents view.
> 
> So what is the supposed behaviour of this setting? Should we show an id
> field on the edit view? Is the current behaviour a bug in Plone 4.x? Do
> we want to get rid of that setting in Plone 5/p.a.contenttypes?

The setting is supposed to always show the id field in the add/edit views.

This is primarily useful for languages where the title-to-id logic doesn't
produce anything readable, because they use non-latin scripts.

No idea if anything changes, but that was the last use-case I remember.

Hanno


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