CreatedBy, EditedBy, DateCreated, DateEdited

Question

Hi EB community,

Sometimes when I create smart forms the edit/create attributes appear in the attributes list and sometimes they don't.

Is anyone able to advise if there's something I need to turn on/off so that the edit/create fields are always options to bring into the smart form?

elpinguino · Answer

It's so the app user can physically see at the time of data entry that the app is recording the date and creator name. Yes it would be read only.

Ayan Palit · Answer

@littlebluepenguinnz Best practice recommendation is to not duplicate data, not create redundant fields. Perhaps you can change the field alias to match the desired names of Inspectedby and DateInspected.

Anonymous User · Answer

Why do you want them in the form? They generally are not editable fields anyway. If they were in the form they'd just be read-only since the server computes the values automatically.