Potential fix for issues with updating and saving rows and columns

packages/bbui/src/Table/CellRenderer.svelte

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
   import RelationshipRenderer from "./RelationshipRenderer.svelte"
   import AttachmentRenderer from "./AttachmentRenderer.svelte"
   import ArrayRenderer from "./ArrayRenderer.svelte"
-  import InternalRenderer from "./InternalRenderer.svelte"
 
   export let row
   export let schema
@@ -23,9 +22,7 @@
     number: StringRenderer,
     longform: StringRenderer,
     array: ArrayRenderer,
-    internal: InternalRenderer,
   }
-
   $: type = schema?.type ?? "string"
   $: customRenderer = customRenderers?.find(x => x.column === schema?.name)
   $: renderer = customRenderer?.component ?? typeMap[type] ?? StringRenderer

packages/builder/src/components/backend/DataTable/DataTable.svelte

@@ -16,29 +16,11 @@
   import { Pagination } from "@budibase/bbui"
 
   let hideAutocolumns = true
-  let schema
   $: isUsersTable = $tables.selected?._id === TableNames.USERS
   $: type = $tables.selected?.type
   $: isInternal = type !== "external"
-  $: {
-    schema = $tables.selected?.schema
+  $: schema = $tables.selected?.schema
 
-    // Manually add these as we don't want them to be 'real' auto-columns
-    schema._id = {
-      type: "internal",
-      editable: false,
-      displayName: "ID",
-      autocolumn: true,
-    }
-    if (isInternal) {
-      schema._rev = {
-        type: "internal",
-        editable: false,
-        displayName: "Revision",
-        autocolumn: true,
-      }
-    }
-  }
   $: id = $tables.selected?._id
   $: search = searchTable(id)
   $: columnOptions = Object.keys($search.schema || {})

packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/index.js

@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ exports.save = async function (ctx) {
     for (let propKey of Object.keys(tableToSave.schema)) {
       let column = tableToSave.schema[propKey]
       let oldColumn = oldTable.schema[propKey]
+      if (oldColumn && oldColumn.type === "internal") {
+        oldColumn.type = "auto"
+      }
       if (oldColumn && oldColumn.type !== column.type) {
         ctx.throw(400, "Cannot change the type of a column")
       }

packages/server/src/constants/index.js

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ exports.FieldTypes = {
   FORMULA: "formula",
   AUTO: "auto",
   JSON: "json",
+  INTERNAL: "internal",
 }
 
 exports.RelationshipTypes = {

packages/server/src/utilities/rowProcessor/index.js

@@ -200,6 +200,12 @@ exports.inputProcessing = (
       clonedRow[key] = exports.coerce(value, field.type)
     }
   }
+
+  if (!clonedRow._id) {
+    clonedRow._id = row._id
+    clonedRow._rev = row._rev
+  }
+
   // handle auto columns - this returns an object like {table, row}
   return processAutoColumn(user, copiedTable, clonedRow, opts)
 }