Is it possible to get whatever is entered into them to be a part of the forum text itself or, rather stay with the thread as is at the time it was entered. As it is currently, if the custom thread field is deleted from the admin panel, the entry is also hidden (remaking it with the same ID restores it) from any thread that had them.
My goal is to use this as a guided way to ensure certain info is there when someone makes a thread. Since the fields may change over time (such as repurposing the field for something else or making a new field to replace the other), the older threads either become almost useless as a large portion of the info would have been 'deleted' or in the case where a field is repurposed, the title of the field may no longer make sense with the info that the old field name got.
My goal is to use this as a guided way to ensure certain info is there when someone makes a thread. Since the fields may change over time (such as repurposing the field for something else or making a new field to replace the other), the older threads either become almost useless as a large portion of the info would have been 'deleted' or in the case where a field is repurposed, the title of the field may no longer make sense with the info that the old field name got.
