Populated Field ReadOnly

Hi All,

I have DCT field(s) that gets populated after the callout. Here's the code:-

Now, I need to make this field readonly so user can't change the field. I have tried following but with no luck. Any help would be or point me to right direction would be great. Thank you.

This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated.

This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated again.

I tried Formapi to setReadOnly(true) but no luck there too.

Env- TS 6.5 Win2003

PS - Sorry for code posting in message. I have attached code and message in txt file for reference.

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Pawan

Hi,

You can try with giving a name attribute to the <text.... > field and make the field explicitly read only after the values are populated into the text field.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Pawan

kaalraa

Hi All,
I have DCT field(s) that gets populated after the callout. Here's the code:-
Now, I need to make this field readonly so user can't change the field. I have tried following but with no luck. Any help would be or point me to right direction would be great. Thank you.
This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated.
This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated again.
I tried Formapi to setReadOnly(true) but no luck there too.
Env- TS 6.5 Win2003
PS - Sorry for code posting in message. I have attached code and message in txt file for reference.

On the first, if the field was set to readonly by default, then it would never gets populated thru inline command. However, you can use inline command... and on load of the complete form you can make the field readonly by using FormAPI.

IWDatacapture.getItem("/abc/FIELDNAME").setReadOnly(true);

Adam Stoller

Hi All,

I have DCT field(s) that gets populated after the callout. Here's the code:-
<item name="CurrentUser" pathid="CurrentUser">
  <label>CurrentUser:</label>
  <text>
    <inline command="E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\iw-perl\bin\iwperl E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\custom\bin\current_user.ipl"/> 
  </text>
</item>
Now, I need to make this field readonly so user can't change the field. I have tried following but with no luck. Any help would be or point me to right direction would be great. Thank you.
<item name="CurrentUser" pathid="CurrentUser">
  <label>CurrentUser:</label>
  <readonly/>
  <text>
    <inline command="E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\iw-perl\bin\iwperl E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\custom\bin\current_user.ipl"/> 
  </text>
</item>
This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated.
<item name="CurrentUser" pathid="CurrentUser">
  <label>CurrentUser:</label>
  <readonly>
    <text>
      <inline command="E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\iw-perl\bin\iwperl E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\custom\bin\current_user.ipl"/> 
    </text>
  </readonly>
</item>
This above makes field readonly but doesn't get populated again.

I tried Formapi to setReadOnly(true) but no luck there too.

Env- TS 6.5 Win2003

You have (at least) two issues here.

The first, is that you could probably acheive your stated objective by making the inline script more extensive so that your DCT code would look like:

<item name="CurrentUser" pathid="CurrentUser">
  <label>CurrentUser:</label>
  <inline command="E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\iw-perl\bin\iwperl E:\Interwoven\TeamSite\custom\bin\current_user.ipl"/> 
</item>

Here, the inline script would produce something like:

<readonly/>
<text>
  <default>your desired value</default>
</text>

Alternatively, you could have your DCT code look like:

<item name="CurrentUser" pathid="CurrentUser">
  <label>CurrentUser:</label>
  <text/>
</item>

and use FormAPI to fill in the value for the field and mark the field readonly. If you're just grabbing the userid this is trivial, but from past posts (if I recall correctly) you're looking up the user's actual name to use here - and then you'd have to use a CallServer script which is asynchronous and thus a little bit trickier (there have been numerous posts on using CallServer) - however the same result could be acheived.

The second issue is that, unless you are checking the existing value of the field first, you will likely overwrite the contents with the information for whomever last edited the DCR. If this is what you want to happen - the inline solution should work just fine.

If, on the otherhand, you want to preserve the initial information - the FormAPI solution would probably be better.

RocknRoll

Thanks Fish! Ur suggestion did help.