can tabbing to a read-only control be disabled?

Save your form design in XDP format. Open the file with a normal text editor. Search the field by name.

The line you will find nearly looks like
[i][/i]change it to
[i][/i]Save the XDP and open it again with the Designer.

Ciao
Jens

Thanks for the suggestion - it did work.

However, does anyone know if there is a way (either using a setting or in JavaScript code) to do this without having to resort to hacking the XDP file (i.e. to do it in LiveCycle Designer directly)?

My concern is training non-technical users how to do this (having them save a PDF to an XDP, edit it in a text editor, bring up the XDP file and resave it to a PDF provides lots of potential for someone to screw it up!)

I found the way to do this in JavaScript event code - just set the access property to "protected" like so:


controlName.access = "protected";

How do you code it to unprotect the field?

The "protected" also prevents changes by FormCalc and JavaScript.

Use FormCalc to change the access property to "open"

For allowing only FormCalc or JavaScript calculations to change the field use "readOnly'.

More information is in the Scripting Reference in LiveCycle Desinger's Help.

Thank you. It did work.