#3855 - Named fields, and generally easier catalogue field relationship dereferencing

Identifier #3855
Issue type Feature request or suggestion
Title Named fields, and generally easier catalogue field relationship dereferencing
Status Open
Handling member Deleted
Addon catalogues
Description Add ability to give each field its own name.

These names would be guaranteed globally-unique (i.e. if you used them for more than one field the system would give an error). You would not be able to enter a combination of only digits and underscores as the field names, to avoid ambiguity with IDs.

These field names would influence the parameter names in Tempcode, so instead of...
{FIELD_3}
You might have...
{FIELD_TITLE}

An algorithm would map the names to valid Tempcode names.

It would be cool to give a list of Tempcode field names as a 'preview action' when adding/editing a catalogue.

The field names would also be usable for any Tempcode symbols that currently take a field ID.

It would also be cool if the catalogue preview action gave you sample Tempcode for dereferencing any forward or backreference relationships that exist for your catalogue.
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