LiveCycle Designer 7.0 signature block help - beginner

Use the calculation event on the ninth signature field to determine the valid signature state of the other 8.

Thank you for your recent reply. It seems I did not accurately express my degree of competence. I could be "pre-beginner". I was able to come up with the statement - P1.SignatureField9.access = "readOnly" - to restrict the signaure field but am unable to either construct the script or determine where in SignatureField9 the script should be placed that would open
SignatureField9 dependant on all other signature fields.. Should it be in "mouseEnter", "click"? And how would it be constructed? Thank you so much for taking time to look at this.

Signatures are complex and difficult all by themselves. LiveCycle Designer includes a user interface for handling all of the common signing activities like locking fields. If you want to do something outside this UI, then you are potentially looking at some pretty hefty scripting.

There are however some things you can do to get around most of the difficulty. For example:

1. Save the form as a Static Form and use the Acrobat JavaScript (as opposed to LiveCycle JavaScript) fucntions for testing the signature validation in your calculation script. They are much easier to deal with.

2. Rather than doing full validation of the other signature fields, use some easier to handle indicator. For example, create a hidden field for each of the other signatures. Lock this field when the associated signature field is signed, then in your calculation scirpt for the 9th signature, simply test the state of the associated field.

Both of these solutions require some scripting skills. It may be a good idea to spend some time learning about scripting in Acrobat and LiveCycle, or engage a developer.

Thank you sir.