Controlling editability of fields

pbrad · Post by **pbrad** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:15 pm

My question relates to editing fields of a referred object on a form with inline editing enabled but I think that the same question applies to forms in general.

I have an inline form with editing enabled and there are some fields that I want the user to be able to fill in but some other fields within the same object instance that I want them to be able to see but not to be able to change. Is there someway to control read-only access at a field level on a form?
Thanks.

Hubertus · Post by **Hubertus** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:45 pm

To my understanding the PROTECT action will be your friend. Though I'd wish to display a protected (or calculated) attribute in a better readable way than a greyed out text input field with also grey text. I took a look at the colour settings in the visual perspective but didn't didn't find a obvious setting to change this.

pbrad · Post by **pbrad** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:52 pm

Thanks,
I am currently trying two levels deep of child objects to see if I can get something to work that way.
Cheers

aware_support2 · Post by **aware_support2** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:00 am

> Is there someway to control read-only access at a field level on a form?
Access to data (editable/read-only/hidden) can be set for each attribute individually. This is not tied to any particular form but rather to the attribute itself. If the attribute access is set, say, to read-only, it will be read-only on all forms where the attribute is shown including inline editing on a related object form or its own object form.

PROTECT action is useful when you want to control access depending on some data, for example not allow changing an account if its status is set to Closed. If you want an attribute to be always read-only for users of particular access level you can simply indicate it in that access level without having to add a PROTECT rule to an object.