TOLOGIX - Infrastructure LawGuide (ILG)

Meta field duplicated when assigning field to field set

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Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa C. William Roberts, QA Manager at Industrial William R.
Notes
Further to the video below, when to take an existing unassigned field and assigning it to a field set, it creates a whole new field, rather than just assigning the existing field.


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Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial
Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan  

This is working as expected. 

There are two ways of adding a field to a field set. 
  1. Via the field set (as above):
    In this case a copy of an existing field is added to your field set. This is intentional in order to allow common fields to be easily added to multiple field sets and maintaining the ability for the field to exist outside a field set. 
  2. Via the field:
    When creating or editing a field, admins can choose to assign it to a field set. In this case the original instance of the field is moved inside the field set.
I have verified that both these scenarios are working as described. Let me know if you would like further clarification or if you feel this must be changed.

Mel
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Ok. Understood, Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa . If that's the case, then shouldn't we remove the requirement that a field set must have a field be assigned to before it can be created? In the scenario above, if I have an existing field, and I want to put it into a field set, I have no way of creating the applicable field set without creating another new field.

Morgan
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Great. Thanks Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa .

Morgan 
Morgan Maguire, CEO
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