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[#26802] - Feature request: Allow change of custom field type after field has been saved
- Expected Behaviour
- 24 Oct 2019
- Medium
- Build: staging
- # 26802
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This applies to both J3x and J4x:
After creating some customer jcfields (I'm new to these) I decided that the format - text area in this instance, as it won't take line breaks - was not suitable and the text editor was preferable. Having saved the field, it is not possible to change its type, so I had to delete it and start again with a new one.
Describe the solution you'd like
Make changing the field type after creation possible.
Additional context
This is similar to menus and modules:
- You can change a menu type after creating the item
- You CAN'T change a module type after creating the module
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| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2019-10-24 16:30:21 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | joomla-cms-bot |
| Status | Closed | ⇒ | Expected Behaviour |
| Closed_By | joomla-cms-bot | ⇒ | alikon |
joomla-cms-bot
- comment
- 24 Oct 2019
Set to "closed" on behalf of @alikon by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/26802
alikon
- comment
- 24 Oct 2019
Expected Behaviour
This isn't really practical, for the same reason as modules. It's essentially an entirely new thing with an entirely different data structure. In a lot of cases, changing the field type is going to result in incompatible configuration or data storage (imagine switching from a textarea to a plain text input).