Remove Gender?

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    1. evening
      Sep 23, 2008
      evening says:

      This isn't necessarily a bug, but how can you remove the value in the Gender field from the Person type? 

      For example, I want to remove the Person type from the Bass Brothers topic, but I need to remove the "Male" from the Gender.  But I can't figure out how to do that.

      If I clear out the value, it wants me to pick something from the list.  I cleared the value and then quickly hit enter, but I don't think the form likes that option as it keeps the value pick list open even when the box is closed :) [of course that disappears as soon as I leave the page]

      Is there a way to allow someone to blank out a field for cases like this?

      2. skud
        Sep 23, 2008
        skud says:
        Why do you need to remove "Male" from Gender before removing the type?  That's not necessary.  You can remove the type without clearing the gender first.
      3. evening
        Sep 23, 2008
        evening says:
        Oh, good to know.  I assumed I had to disassociate all the values before removing the type or there could be a value/space/whatever left hanging on the other end. 
      4. cheunger
        Sep 23, 2008
        cheunger says:

        Well... detyping a type from a topic is not necessarily "clean".  If a topic is erronously typed with property values, the cleanest way is to detype is to remove all the property values first and then detype the type.  Otherwise, you get property artifacts left behind (the link between the topic and the property/value is not unlinked).  As an example. see my topic on sandbox - I typed myself as a location, added a containment, then detyped without removing property values. 

        We're trying to get clean detyping functionality into the client soon, as well as have backend validators run periodically.  However, in the meantime, I advocate removing property values first before detyping.

      5. evening
        Sep 23, 2008
        evening says:

        I guess it depends on if the property value is linked with another topic?  So it probably doesn't matter for date of birth, but does for employer.

        Not sure where gender falls into it, but the problem with removing the value is seems to want a value and there's no obvious way to remove it.

      6. cheunger
        Sep 23, 2008
        cheunger says:

        Ah, the enumerated type is trying to "force" you to pick a choice.  What I do to remove the value is delete the current text in the edit popup, wait for the popup choices appear, then click off of the edit popup.  The popup choices will disappear and then you can click save and the value will be disconnected.  Definitely not desired functionality - I'll bring it up with client design.

        As for removing values, it applies for all properties.


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