Studio - Fields reverting back to default

[TwizzX17]

Issue

I'm having issues with the studio, while trying to edit fields on the Contacts module (This does not seem to be a module specific bug). When editing a standard field, such as phone_fax, it will sometimes reset back to its default values. If i for instance deletes the value in "Comment Text" and sets the required field to active and saves. This will sometimes success and sometimes not. In some cases the comment value will return to the field and sometimes not. Even if it succeeds, the entire field record will go back to default if saved once again.

Expected Behavior

The values of the forms should be set to what the user defines, not randomly shuffle on each safe.

Actual Behavior

After changing the values on the form and saving, the values will only in rare instances be saved as defined. Other times only some of the values will be saved. I've read through the logs, but it doesn't throw any error or warnings.

Possible Fix

I dont know the stack good enough, to know what is causing the bug.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to Admin -> Studio -> Contacts -> Fields -> phone_fax
2. Change the value of "Comment Text" to an empty value and set required field as true.
3. Click save
4. If the values are as expected, try to navigate away from the field and back again, now set default value as any kind of string and hit save.
5. The previous edited values should now be changed back to the default values.

Context

High priority - We cannot edit our dropdown values, which means it is displayed as empty, because the values doesnt match the options.

Your Environment

• SuiteCRM Version used: 8.4.1
• Browser name and version (e.g. Chrome Version 51.0.2704.63 (64-bit)): Chrome Version 117.0.5938.150 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Environment name and version (e.g. MySQL, PHP 7): 8.1.24 and has been tested on 8.2
• Operating System and version (e.g Ubuntu 16.04): Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) and has also been tested on Ubuntu 20

[johnM2401]

Hey!
Thank you for raising this, and getting in touch!
For reference, I've transferred this over to the Suite7 repo, as I can replicate this on 7.14.1 too.
Thanks again!

[pgorod]

I confirm that there is a bug here (old! and serious) and I hope to provide a fix soon.
I would appreciate help testing this - it's complex and I'm not sure of all the implications of my fix...

[pgorod]

See #10538 for a possible fix