Computed Field - only save value on inser and not update

Posted by mattyb on March 10, 2008 at 2:04pm

I'm using the compute field to generate an api key, only I don't want it to re-run the script every time I save the page, only on insert.

I'm not sure what approach I should take.

Thanks in advance

Matt

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Posted by jaxta on March 11, 2008 at 9:14am

I could really do with some help on this as well (for slightly different reasons!).

Can anyone help?

thx

Posted by mattyb on March 11, 2008 at 9:38am

To get the computed field to only generate first time around is a simple as wrapping this around your computed code

if ($node_field[0]['value'] == '' )
{ $node_field[0]['value'] = "hello" ; /* only work on insert and not on upates */ }

Thanks to jaxta who helped on this