Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Improving (or replacing) acs_attributes for dynamic form generation

It would be great if this information was available for all acs_objects. Acs_attributes sound like a good place. It could possibly still be an add on package, but if it worked it would probably move into core pretty quick.

One problem with automatic form generation is that usually there are attributes which should only be accessible by certain users, some not at all, and some, only certain values should be available. Unfortunately the database doesn't know about any of this, so these details are handled in the tcl layer.

For efficiency, the data in this system should probably be cached in nsv_ arrays.

It is a tough problem.