Hi Gurus,

I have a customized maintain session. I have several fields within the same. I want to add a functionality which will freeze certain fields in the session and make them read only when a certain date is reached.

Please guide me with some example.


Thanks.

Hi Gurus,

I have a customized maintain session. I have several fields within the same. I want to add a functionality which will freeze certain fields in the session and make them read only when a certain date is reached.

Please guide me with some example.


Thanks.

Hello,
disable.fields with "READONLY" in a condition should do it:

disable.fields()
Syntax:

function void disable.fields ( [long mode], string field [,occurrence],...)

Description


This disables single-occurrence and multi-occurrence fields on a form.

To disable all fields of a group, see disable.group().

Because the information is not available, you can not use this function in the before.program section.


Arguments

[long mode ] This is an optional argument. It has two possible values:

DISABLE This is the default mode and does not need to be specified.

READONLY The field(s) become read-only fields that cannot be edited by the user.

string field [,occurrence],... This identifies the field to be disabled.

For a single-occurrence field, this is the field name. For a multioccurrence field, this can be either the field name or the field name followed by an occurrence number (depending on whether you wish to disable all occurrences of the field or only one particular occurrence).

For array fields, UTC fields, and segmented fields, you can append suffixes to the field name to indicate the particular element or segment to be disabled. If you omit these suffixes, all elements/segments are disabled.

To disable a particular element of an array field, append the element number (in parentheses) to the field name. The element number must be an integer, formatted as a string. It cannot be a variable. For example: "tfmod100.perd(10)".
To disable only the date or time element of a UTC field, append either .date or .time to the field name. For example: "ttadv300.cdat.time".
To disable a particular segment of a segmented field, append .segment.segment_id to the field name. For example: "tiitm001.item.segment.1".


Context

This function can be used in all script types.

Examples

| Disable two named single-occurrence fields
disable.fields( "tccom010.beca", "tccom010.dsca" )

| Change to read-only fields the current occurrences of the multi-
| occurrence fields tccom010beca and tcccom101.dsca
disable.fields( READONLY, "tccom010.beca", actual.occ, "tccom010.dsca",
actual.occ )

| Disable element number 10 of an array field
disable.fields( "tfmod100.perd(10)" )

| Disable elements 1 to 12 of an array field
for i = start to 12
disable.fields( "month(" & str$(i) & ")" )
endfor

| Disable the date element of a UTC field
ttaad500.fidt = 0
disable.fields( "ttaad500.fidt.date" )

| Disable the first and second segments of a segmented field
disable.fields( "tcibd001.dfit.segment.1", "tcibd001.dfit.segment.2" )

Regards

In addition to bdittmar,

You can use this syntax:

field.fieldname:

before.input:

if some_condition then
disable.fields("fieldname")
endif

Hi,

if as it seems you are using ERPLN and the main table is your own then I would definitely use DAL to do this. Generate a DAL2 for your table and add something like this to it:


|add a function for each field tdzzz999.fldx:
function extern boolean tdzzz999.fldx.is.read.only()
{
domain tcdate now
domain tcdate certain.date

now = date.num()

certain.date = date.to.num(2012, 12, 24)


return( now > certain.date)
}