An operator cannot change a record's key from its page #73
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Reference: wiki-cafe/member-console#73
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Block a user
What a person cannot do today
Change the key that seeds, scripts and other systems use to address a record. Records carry a stable key beside their generated id, the detail pages show it read-only, and changing one means a database statement.
What they should be able to do
Edit the key on a record's page, within the key's grammar, with the uniqueness rule enforced and the old key freed.
Why it matters
A key is the declarative address of a record, and addresses are occasionally wrong or need to follow a rename.
Where
The record detail pages that show a key; the key validation that the seeds already follow.
Done when
A key can be edited on every page that shows one, a refused edit says why, and a seed that addresses the record by its old key fails loudly rather than creating a second record.