Re: Forms6 - selective access to a field depending on a global variable value

[Quoted] Found it - 'set_item_property'.

[Quoted] (RTFM,rtfm,rtfm,.... but first FINDtfm!)

"Sally Pearce" <sally.pearce_at_ncr.com> wrote in message news:3d64ed2a$1_at_rpc1284.daytonoh.ncr.com...
> Forms 4.5 Oracle 7.3.4 (yes, I know this is StoneAge stuff, but we will be
> moving to the Bronze Age shortly - Forms6. The date for moving into the
> Steam Age 8.1.7 is somewhere in 2003 . . .)
>
> The problem is this: how do we set up form attributes in such a way that
the
> users can enter and update some fields on the canvas only if a particular
> global variable is true?
> We to prevent the user entering the fields and trying to update them if
the
> variable is false, but allow them to update if the variable is true.
> We can see that you can set the canvas attributes 'updateable' to true or
> false, but can't see any way to do this conditionally.
> We know that we can use triggers (when-validate-item) to warn the users
> after the fact, we have also tried the on-mouse-enter trigger but this
> prevents the user moving the mouse over the form field to fileds beyond
this
> point.
>
> Is there a way to do what we want? I'm sure there must be (I couldn't
find
> anything on Google)
>
>
>
Received on Thu Aug 22 2002 - 16:30:17 CEST