chris
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| Posted: 05/14/2004, 7:39 AM |
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Hi,
how do you prevent certains fields of being updated ? Depending on the group a user belongs to (user or admin), I want them to be able to update a certain field on a record.
I tried setting the Visible-property to false, this will hide the contents of the field, but you're still able to modify the contents of the field ?
Is there a way to prevent the field from displaying, or display the content, but prevent modification ?
My current solution is creating a seperate page, with a record, where I use labels instead of textboxes.
thx,
Chris
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peterr
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| Posted: 05/14/2004, 9:40 AM |
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You can hide the while field by setting its Visible property to False, however you then also need to right-click on the field, click "Edit" and set its "Extended HTML" property.
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chris
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| Posted: 05/16/2004, 9:20 AM |
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Peterr,
thx for the answer, setting the 'Extended HTML' will definitely hide the field, but when I hit the update-button; the result is as if a blank was entered !?
For the moment I use a different page, with certain fields ommited. The behaviour I want is the following, from a list we select a record; if belonginig to (security-) group A, I have full access and I can update all fields; if however I belong to group B, I can only update certain fields !
My initial idea was hiding them ... ideally I like to have those fields changed to 'Labels', so I can see the content but not change it ?
Do know any alternaive methods how to come to this behaviour ?
thx,
Chris
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peterr
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| Posted: 05/17/2004, 10:48 AM |
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Hidden fields do not send any values to the program (they no longer exist in the HTML) but if the form was designed by including such fields then it will utilize whatever values are sent to it from HTML, which in this case are blank.
Couple possible solutions:
- save form values into session variables and then read them and reassign as field values after the form is submitted (Before Insert).
- create several similar forms for different user groups and hide the forms that users shouldn't see
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chris
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| Posted: 05/18/2004, 3:55 AM |
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Peter,
I'll use the second option; I was allready using this as a fallback solution.
Just wondering, if there were a simpler, more elegant solution.
Chris
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Sixto Luis Santos
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| Posted: 05/18/2004, 4:37 AM |
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Chris,
We've created a server action to handle this. Visit RexDesign
(http://ccs.ath.cx) and check the "Custom Server Actions: Field-level
Security" tutorial.
Regards,
Sixto
"chris" <chris@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> how do you prevent certains fields of being updated ? Depending on the
group a
> user belongs to (user or admin), I want them to be able to update a
certain
> field on a record.
> I tried setting the Visible-property to false, this will hide the contents
of
> the field, but you're still able to modify the contents of the field ?
> Is there a way to prevent the field from displaying, or display the
content,
> but prevent modification ?
> My current solution is creating a seperate page, with a record, where I
use
> labels instead of textboxes.
>
> thx,
>
> Chris
>
> WInXP IIS/MySQL / PHP
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