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

Sally Pearce wrote:

> Found it - 'set_item_property'.
>
> (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)
> >
> >
> >

[Quoted] Exactly. Another way is to put the editables in one block, the non-editables in [Quoted] a separate block and build a 1:1 relationship between them. Then you can set the [Quoted] block property affecting all of the fields in a single statement rather than [Quoted] having to write code to do so on an item-by-item basis.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Aug 22 2002 - 17:20:32 CEST