Some ideas for automatic field values

[Carlos Cesar Caballero]

Hi everyone, I am almost finishing a plugin for building automatic slug fields, but I want to build editable slugs.

I can right now when the user creates a new record in the database, fill a field with the slug, but I need the ability to update it too.
If the field is created for the very first time, I have an algoritm to create the slug (simply using the IS_SLUG validator), but if the field is edited, I need to use a different one, the problem is that the calculated field feature not specify whether the field is created or edited (or at least I don't find it), and I can't use the after_update trigger because it falls in an infinite loop when I update the field.

How can I do that?

Greetings.

[José Luis Redrejo]

Have you tried update_naive when using the after_update trigger? It should avoid the infinite loop

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[Carlos Cesar Caballero]

Man, how could I miss that?, right in the doc... I will like to use a calculated field for that, but update_naive will work, many thanks.