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Consider soft-locked and mergeable EditEngine field settings
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When you Lock a field in an EditEngine form, the lock is strict. In particular, using prefilling or templating does not change the value of the locked field, so if you create a subtask using a form with some fields locked, those fields will not inherit values from the parent task.

Additionally, field values do not merge. If you set a form to add project "A" by default, and subtask a task tagged "B", you get only "B" (not "A, B") on the new subtask.

There are two alternate behaviors we could consider:

  • Soft-Locked: We could lock the control in the UI, but allow prefilling, templating, or both to change the value.
  • Mergeable: We could mark (or change the behavior of) the "Tags" and "Subscribers" fields so they combined the form defaults and any prefilled/templated values.

Original Description

after the ApplicationEditor changes, creating a subtask no longer copies the project from the super task

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nateguchi2 created this task.Jan 26 2016, 12:14 PM
chad added a subscriber: chad.Jan 26 2016, 2:54 PM

I can't reproduce this. https://secure.phabricator.com/T10224

nateguchi2 added a comment.Jan 26 2016, 2:59 PM

Sorry, I had locked the project field in the edit form for that user and it wasn't pulled through.

It would be good to have a half-locked setting for some fields so they can pull from URL / template, but remain locked in the UI, just so people know they shouldn't change them.

epriestley renamed this task from Creating a subtask no longer copies project from supertask to Consider soft-locked and mergeable EditEngine field settings.Jan 26 2016, 3:15 PM
epriestley triaged this task as Wishlist priority.
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epriestley edited projects, added Feature Request, ApplicationEditor; removed Bug Report.
joshuaspence added a subscriber: joshuaspence.Jan 28 2016, 9:58 AM
epriestley mentioned this in T10719: "status" field should not be copied from template when creating new tasks.Apr 5 2016, 11:02 AM
epriestley mentioned this in D16589: Don't lock subscription in PhameBlog.Sep 23 2016, 12:59 PM
epriestley mentioned this in D16764: Improve some setInitialValue() behavior for PhortuneMerchants.Oct 28 2016, 8:29 PM
epriestley mentioned this in rP2bbddb8c0f29: Improve some setInitialValue() behavior for PhortuneMerchants.Oct 28 2016, 9:54 PM
epriestley mentioned this in T11816: Calendar: Feedback and Suggestions.Nov 16 2016, 2:17 PM
epriestley mentioned this in D16878: Make some confusing/weird Calendar fields not configurable on custom EditEngine forms.Nov 16 2016, 2:59 PM
epriestley mentioned this in rP91ee6b78df3d: Make some confusing/weird Calendar fields not configurable on custom EditEngine….Nov 16 2016, 3:49 PM
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