Updated date field automatically filled in

Help me!
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This is a question on best way to achieve this.

Feature(s) impacted

Is there a way to have a field updatedAt automatically filled in every time a value is changed for a specific row from Forest? Does that already exist?

Observed behavior

I guess a way it would work is by overriding the routes to auto-fill the updatedAt value.

Expected behavior

Ideally, an updatedAt field present in a table would automatically be updated every time a row is updated.

Thank you!

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Hello @alexphiev,

What do you mean by:

every time a value is changed for a specific row from Forest?

Can you give me an example just to make sure I understand your need?

Thank you in advance,
Mia

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Hi @anon23361380 ,

I think I answered myself and the solution is on the database level directly.
In SQL, I simply need to add that ON UPDATE statement at the end to have my field automatically set the new update_at date.

ALTER TABLE t1
ADD COLUMN updated_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

Thank you anyways,
Alexandre