Record Update Question

Report · Jul 24, 2006

I have no problem setting up the Record Update form. Works just fine as long as I don't try to put the wrong information into a form field. And when I am updating fields, such as correcting information in some of the fields, there are other fields I want to SEE in the update form but I also want to PROTECT from accidentally updating that particular field. Is there a behavior I can apply to a field in an update form that will protect it from update and still allow me to see what is there? Or a VB script that I can write into that particular field code that will let me see the information without letting me to change it?

Report · Jul 24, 2006

Bind that field to the page where the form blank would go. That will insert
the information from that record field, but it won't be able to be changed.

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"MissionaryMike" <mhanson82@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ea3fa9$p5$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I have no problem setting up the Record Update form. Works just fine as
>long
> as I don't try to put the wrong information into a form field. And when I
> am
> updating fields, such as correcting information in some of the fields,
> there
> are other fields I want to SEE in the update form but I also want to
> PROTECT
> from accidentally updating that particular field. Is there a behavior I
> can
> apply to a field in an update form that will protect it from update and
> still
> allow me to see what is there? Or a VB script that I can write into that
> particular field code that will let me see the information without letting
> me
> to change it?
>
>
>

Report · Jul 30, 2006

Thank you very much. I am not sure yet what it means to bind the field to the page where the form blank would go. I figured there should be a way to do it. How to you bind the field to the page? I assume it has something to do with the field attributes at the bottom of the window?

Sorry it took me so long to reply. I have had a TON of problems with file permissions setting up a local testing server. It still doesn't work. The event viewer talked about a certain application needing permission, but didn't provide it's common name, only the CSLID number. I looked through the list of applications in the COM folder, and all their IDs but none of the IDs matched. So, I don't know where to look now.

So back to my earliest, and still remaining problem, how do you bind a field to a page?

Sincerely,
Mike

Report · Jul 30, 2006

I already figured it out, sorry for the last message.
In the recordset discriptors there is a bind column. And one of the items is "input.readonly" I assume that's how you bind the input to the page.

Thanks again for your help!

Mike