Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:15:25 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615 New contact and disabled "name" field Hello together, when you create a new contact, the first thing the user will try is to type in the "name" field, which is a composite of firstname, lastname and others. The control is disabled and dynamically updated via Javascript. Would it be possible to replace the disabled widget by text only and still update it via Javascript? Other ideas? Thomas Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:02:36 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44693 Wouldn't it be more confusing for users to be able to type into a text field and have the value ignored or overwritten when the last/first name fields are edited? You could always remove the 'name' field from display if it's really bothersome for your users. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:39:24 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44707 I think the idea is to make it not a text field, right? Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:41:10 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44708 > I think the idea is to make it not a text field, right? Yea, that makes sense, my bad :) The idea about removing it from the display if your using a tabbed display is still an option though. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:49:15 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44709 Not sure what tabs have to do with it? I modified Horde_Form_Renderer so that disabled variables are wrapped in a class="form-disabled". Can we work with that and CSS to make it look like text? Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:16:22 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44715 > Not sure what tabs have to do with it? If you use the optional 'tabs' entry in cfgSources, you can omit the 'name' attribute from any of the tabs so it will not display. I know it's not the best solution, but was offered as another option if nothing else would work. :) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:30 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44716 Is it possible to define a default field value for new contacts? The root of the problem is that the user does not really see that the form field is disabled as it's empty by default. If the field would contain something like "firstname lastname" and then gets cleared the first time a user types something in the firstname field, all would be fine. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:39:17 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44825 > Is it possible to define a default field value for new contacts? It is now. Unfortunately that doesn't completely solve the problem since the updating field is initialized onload, so even if you give 'name' a default value, it gets immediately wiped to '' once the form loads, since 'firstname' and 'lastname' are empty. What about the idea of using CSS to make it not look like a form field? Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:29:28 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44828 How about showing the composite field (but not the component fields) on the display tab.. and showing the component fields (but not the composite fields) on the edit tab? Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:54:28 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44882 Seems like a good system to me, though requires a bit more work to determine which are which. I'll work on it. Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:18:04 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t44961 This should probably wait for after the feature freeze since it didn't get started - yes? Mon, 12 May 2008 20:55:11 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t45246 > This should probably wait for after the feature freeze since it > didn't get started - yes? No hurry over here. Tue, 13 May 2008 07:22:04 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6615#t45248