Hi All, I've got a couple of portals where I would like the fields displayed to be read only. This would allow the user to copy the data without any chance of accidentally altering/deleting the original data.

Is there any easy way to achieve this?

Thanks Pedro :-)

Right click on the portal field, click on "Field Control">Behavior and uncheck "Allow field to be entered">"In Browse Mode."

Hi aldipalo, thanks for the advice, unfortunately this also restricts access to the field in browse mode so the contents cannot be copied.

This database stores information that is copied and pasted into other programs but sometimes the original source data is deleted or changed accidentally through a portal.

If the field occurance in the portal was read only this would allow the copy but the user couldn't change the data.

Cheers Pedro :-)

Edited November 14, 200619 yr by Guest

Make a calculation field and use that. The data in the calc field is able to be copied but not altered.

Hi mr_vodka, I was hoping there was another way as using calculation fields results in lots of additional fields.

Thanks for the sugestion though,

Cheers Pedro :-)

You only need one - see here.

How about limiting Edit access to the field via Defining Accounts & Privileges? You can do it by calculation, so that if LayoutName = "Portal Layout", access to editing is denied.

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