Hey this was a great help, thanks again. I had a bit of a vacation in between this
I was able to set everything up for my requirements, however not able to use MySQL point value I went back to using two decimal fields.
OK. Found it in the docs, I didn't know to override form_fields function, I thought I had to modify the custom_fields value
function form_fields($values = array())
{
$fields = parent::form_fields($values);
$fields['address']['class'…
I imagine the most basic representation would be a text-field with concated lat/long values, e.g: "31.456,121.453" the key though is reading from and storing back to the database. As of now a point field get's represented in garbled binary data or s…
Thanks for taking the time to respond. config/custom_fields.php contains this line
$fields['plaintext'] = array('type' => 'textarea', 'cols' => 40, 'rows' => 5, 'class' => 'no_editor');
and my buildings modul
class Buildings_model ext…