Display (Read Only) Information from Other Records

[jcanuel]

I have a form that needs to display information from another record. The problem is that if I use the "Personalize Form Layout" feature to add the associated field, it appears in the form with the original attributes (Mandatory, Editable). Is there a way to have this field Read Only ?

[salemsap]

Hi,

Better write a client script or ui policy to make that field as readonly.

To make that field readonly.first u need to make the mandatory as false and then set it as readonly.

You can do it like,

g_form.setMandatory('reference_field_name.fieldname',false);

g_form.setReadOnly('reference_field_name.fieldname',true);

[jcanuel]

Thank you Alex,

It works fine with a UI Policy.

Is there a way to hide the lable for that associated field. I dont see any method to do that with the g_form object ?

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi Jacques,

Since you are saying that you have to display the fields from a different record (i assume that this record will be associated from your record through a reference field)

So what you can do is pull these fields on your form by personalizing form layout . Now create a client script on your form and using the client script you can make all these fields read only.

g_form.serMandatory("incident.caller_id", false);

g_form.serReadOnly("incident.caller_id", true);     //assuming you cave pulled the caller id field from incident table

use the same for all the fields, n the same order.