default values

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/6/05 3:50 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:

> I just looked at the issue of default values for fields in V2. The
> kernel doc is not consistent on that, so I am not sure whether it is
> already supported or is planned to be added soon.
> 
> When discussing SetBlank on page 46, there is no mention of default
> values. On page 59, the discussion of SetBlank mentions using default
> values, but on page 98 there is no mention of defaults again.
> Confusing.
> 
> Furthermore, SetBlank should allow me to either use or ignore
> defaults, me thinks. I can think of situations requiring one or the
> other. May be we should have SetDefaults to do what is described on
> page 59 and keep SetBlank as described on pages 46 and 98. Or add a
> parameter to SetBlank telling it whether to use defaults or not.

Well, Default Value is feature which is used only when you add new record.

If you not specify value for this field, then Default is used.

I do not see many sense work around this mechanism...


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