Restricting change in a field in different forms

[msadesign]

I'm not really sure I'm posting in the correct sub-forum, but hoping for the best 🙂 And I have two questions, which I'll ask in two posts. 

Question:

My Proposal db has a field called Fee Amount. I use this field in two instances:

— Form View, which I use to prepare new Proposals. 

— List View, which lets me see a list of open proposals.  I use a simple script to only show open Proposals, based on a field called Open. So far, so good. 

I want to restrict data entry in Fee Amount. Data can only be changed through the original Proposal (the Form View instance). I do not want Fee Amount changeable when I am looking at the list.

Is this possible?

I'm far from any sort of expert. I'm running FM Pro Advanced 17, Mac Mojave 10.14.6.

Edited yesterday at 07:03 PM by msadesign
Clarity (FM version used).

[comment]

A simple solution could be to prevent field entry in the list view layout:
https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/allowing-preventing-field-entry.html

But I am curious why you need such restriction. Usually you want to control who can modify a value, not where can they do so.

 

[msadesign]

Thanks. Although I am well familiar with the online Claris help pages, I didn't notice this until now, which of course answers my question:

"Preventing entry into a field only affects the field object on that layout" *

As to why, I take your point, and it's probably overkill, particularly since I am the only one ever using these files. And while I only write a few Proposals a month, I do have call to revise fairly often; I wanted to be sure that fees and scope items are close by and on the same layout.

Thank you for your help :-)

*https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/allowing-preventing-field-entry.html

[comment]

5 minutes ago, msadesign said:

I wanted to be sure that fees and scope items are close by and on the same layout.

Maybe you would prefer to make the field a button that takes you to the form layout? Or opens a popover that shows all the relevant items.