Need help making the "name" field readonly and instead adding a unique ID to the "name" field. about survey-creator

[andrewtelnov]

@chrisweconect I will introduce onQuestionCreating event and will do an example. It will be available in the next minor. I think we will release it early next week.
You will be able to try it early if you build the library by yourself. The instruction in the readme file.
Please follow these issues:
#51
#52

Thank you,
Andrew

[andrewtelnov]

@chrisweconect At the current moment there is no way to make the property read-only in the editor. You may only hide it. Additionally the name property can be added in the question editor as well.
Do you want to hide it completely or do you want to make it read-only?
We will have to add an event or something in the API to support read-only properties.

About custom name generation - I think the best solution is to have onQuestionCreating event, where a new created question will be passed, before adding it to the survey. On this event you will be able to change any question property including the name.
Will it work for you?

Thank you,
Andrew

[chrisweconect]

@andrewtelnov - Thanks for the quick reply. We would prefer to make the "name" field read-only. How do we create an onQuestionCreating event? Any example of how to do that?

Thanks,
Chris

[chrisweconect]

@andrewtelnov - Any updates making the "name" field read-only? Or making the "name" field a unique ID? Looking forward to this update.

Thanks,
Chris

[andrewtelnov]

@chrisweconect I am working on it right now. I have introduced readonly attribute for JsonProperties a week ago: surveyjs/survey-library@929917d
At the current moment I am changing the editor.
I'm fully refactoring the first ("General") tab of the Question Editor. I want to give the ability to add/remove properties and customize the layout of "General" tab. At the current moment it is hardcoded.
I'am not sure about this week, but definitely on the next week you will have this functionality.
You will have to include the following code:
JsonObject.metaData.findProperty("questionbase", "name").readOnly = true;

Thank you,
Andrew

[chrisweconect]

@andrewtelnov - Thanks!

I look forward to this new release.

Chris

[andrewtelnov]

@chrisweconect
It is implemented:
#52
#62

We will make a release on the next week. If you need it early, you have to rebuild surveyjs library and editor.

Thank you,
Andrew

[andrewtelnov]

@chrisweconect Here is the demo