I'm using a portal to view information about engraved cylinders. One of the fields within the portal is a container that contains an Adobe Acrobat .pdf drawing of the engraved pattern. I only want user to be able to view the pdf, by double-clicking the field. However, to give them this access, they can also delete the pdf which I don't want. Any way to give them access to double-click but not to delete or edit the field? We're running FM 5 Server with FM 5.0 clients all on Windows.

Rather than giving the user any access, write a script that will open the PDF file. Attach this script to the field. When the user clicks the field, the script will run and open the file.

Chuck

Any way to give them access to double-click but not to delete or edit the field? We're running FM 5 Server with FM 5.0 clients all on Windows.

I might be wrong since the feature you describe is PC-only and I'm (mainly) on a Mac but you should be able to create a calc field, container type, equalling the field with the .pdf file