how to make the field read only

I need to make the following field as read only.

File Path

I tried the following in my javascript

IWDatacapture.getItem(attachment_path).setReadOnly(true);

With this the field can be made as readonly but the Browse button which comes just besides the text field is getting disappered.

Any solution please ?

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Slabrador

If its a read only field, there's no point browsing for anything, so the button's removed...

kaalraa

I need to make the following field as read only.

File Path

I tried the following in my javascript

IWDatacapture.getItem(attachment_path).setReadOnly(true);

With this the field can be made as readonly but the Browse button which comes just besides the text field is getting disappered.

Any solution please ?

Could you please attach your code and provide the necessary envionment information?

nipper

I need to make the following field as read only.

[html]

File Path

[/html]
I tried the following in my javascript

IWDatacapture.getItem(attachment_path).setReadOnly(true);

With this the field can be made as readonly but the Browse button which comes just besides the text field is getting disappered.

Any solution please ?

So it *seems* that what you want to do is prevent someone from entering in the path in the text field and requrie them to use your upload button ?

Very nice functionality. I do not think you can do it with the code you are using. It would take some non-trivial code to get that going. This would certainly be a great feature request.

If you want, you can use a checkbox button and a separate text field with some formapi to keep things together and then you need to invoke a CGI browser.

Good luck, if you decide to try this endeavor, I am certain people would help if you promise to post the code after.

Andy

ISCBorisB

Very nice functionality. I do not think you can do it with the code you are using. It would take some non-trivial code to get that going. This would certainly be a great feature request.

It's not that big of a deal, just separate an Item and buttons that modify it.

Enclosed sample illustrates what I just said. (in real life I would place JS into dedicated Library).
It *should* be fully functional - not that it does much besides POC

nipper

It's not that big of a deal, just separate an Item and buttons that modify it.

Yea Bo, that is the easy part. He wants a browse window to open up and populate the area. That (I would think) is the hard part. Now, maybe one can use callout_upload.ipl in this situation, I am not too certain about that. If not, then you need to use another perl/JS browser to do that.

Andy

ISCBorisB

Yea Bo, that is the easy part. He wants a browse window to open up and populate the area. That (I would think) is the hard part. Now, maybe one can use callout_upload.ipl in this situation, I am not too certain about that. If not, then you need to use another perl/JS browser to do that.

Andy

That's not too hard to do either. I've enclosed modified sample, it's perhaps a dozen lines longer (if that).
Almost forgot... It is of course a hack and all that.

kaalraa

Do we have any update, if someone has raised this as a Feature Request?? If yes, has this been release in some patch update or going to be next release??