Copy and paste fields between layouts?

[PatriciaW]

I'm migrating an FM6 application to FM7. After I carefully created three categories of layouts: 1) for entering Find requests, 2) for viewing data (no updates permitted) and 3) for full updating,

the user has now informed me that they used to copy/paste data between layouts.

Having defined fields in the viewing (readonly) layouts to not be used for Finding or Browsing, it does not appear to be possible to copy text from the fields.

Is there a (hopefully simple) solution to this?

(I know that earlier suggestions to other questions were to set up all updates using global fields and only when the data was clean move the data to the actual fields ... but that is an incredible amount of work in FM7 ... perhaps Developer facilitates this sort of bulk change : .)

[comment]

"Field behavior > Allow field to be entered" is not really meant to be a security feature. Use File > Define > Accounts and Privileges, where you can specify, layout by layout, which layouts can be modified, and which are to be 'view only' or 'no access'. On a 'view only' layout, copy is possible.

[PatriciaW]

Many thanks Comment.

There is so much to learn about FileMaker ... but this group really helps.

Your advice really helps,

Patricia :