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11 years 8 months ago #220457 by yogiman
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Hi i have a lot of fields in my installation of cb that i do not use, can i just delete those fields or this will cause some issue?

for example there are some things i do not need my users to fill up anymore when they register

if some users had this infos in the past, by deleting this fileds do i create a disater?
:-)

Thanks

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11 years 8 months ago #220479 by krileon
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If they're not core fields you can delete them as you feel necessary.


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11 years 8 months ago #220735 by yogiman
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Ok thanks

how cha i determine if a field is a core one or not?

are they the "predefined" fields?

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11 years 8 months ago #220740 by krileon
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You can't change the Publish state of a core field, it also won't let you delete them if you tried.


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11 years 8 months ago #220765 by yogiman
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my god!

i've deleted a filed called middle name as i do not need it and now i cannot access admin backend anymore!!!!!

what can i do???

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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #220786 by krileon
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Middle name has nothing to do with backend access. What do you mean you can't access backend? What happens when you attempt to login? You can't even delete the middle name field; it throws "Middle Name cannot be deleted because it is a system field.". I've tested this on J1.5, J2.5, and J3.0 as providing this exact error message. So I've no clue how you managed to actually delete it.

For the sake of your site please stop deleting things if you don't know what they are first. Only delete fields you created. Leave other fields alone. Deleting a few fields is not going to improve your sites performance or anything of the sort so they do no harm being there.


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