# \[Bug\] Smart field are editable

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/bug-smart-field-are-editable/1016>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/bug-smart-field-are-editable/1016 "2020-09-22T13:10:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Camille\_LEGERON](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/camille_legeron/32/827_2.png) [@Camille\_LEGERON](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Camille_LEGERON)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/bug-smart-field-are-editable/1016/1 "2020-09-22T13:10:46Z")

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Hello!

In my FA project I use some smart field that I define in my code.

Until now all smart fields were readonly as they should be. But there seems to be a bug since about 1 week. The smart fields are editable and are visible everywhere even when I explicitly said I wanted to hide them.

Several times I’ve hidden a smart field and when I restart my servers the smart field becomes visible again…

When I try to make a smart field read-only, I get this error :

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/1X/a30085ce5aaeee1ff608ea56ade559124a436f0e.png)

## Context

My metadatas :

“meta”: {  
“database\_type”: “postgres”,  
“liana”: “forest-express-sequelize”,  
“liana\_version”: “6.3.6”,  
“engine”: “nodejs”,  
“engine\_version”: “12.18.3”,  
“framework”: “express”,  
“framework\_version”: “~4.17.1”,  
“orm\_version”: “5.22.3”  
}

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**Author:** ![arnaud](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/arnaud/32/32_2.png) [@arnaud](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/arnaud)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/bug-smart-field-are-editable/1016/2 "2020-09-22T14:54:10Z")

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Hi @Camille_LEGERON,

Welcome to the Forest Admin community!

If I read you well, I think we have 2 issues.

About the second one; the Smart Field `read-only` edition, I think it has been identified and the team is currently working on a fix.

About the first issue, I am not sure of what can happen.  
Can you give us more insights about the regression you observed?  
Does it happen when you define a new Smart Field or does it happen for existing Smart Fields?

Thanks for your help