Field visibility in different views

[philestine]

Hi,

Is there a way to annotate a field in an entity as not form backed ?
I have a Person entity with a registration date. I want the date to be automatically entered (no need for a calendar on the create view). But I'd like the show view to show the registered date. I can of course comment things out in the views, but Roo seems to recreate them.

Thanks !
Phil

[builderdash]

You could set the render attribute to false of the generated create and update views.

<field:input field="fieldName" id="fieldName_Id" render="false" z="user-managed"/>

To keep your old data track the value as a hidden input field or post-manipulate your entry.

[philestine]

Thanks ! I used this technique along with @PreUpdate and @PrePersist annotations in the java code to get what I needed.