force edit a readonly field

[hind]

Hi all,

we want to give the possibility to Change Author of KB article and since this field is read-only (OOB), to do this, 

I created an ui action "Change author" which calls a ui page that lists the active users as shown below : 

the problem is that I can not modify the KB with Published Retired and Outdated status (the Save doesn't work), 

the operation works very well for the rest of the cases : Draft, Review, Sheduled for publish and Pending retirement 

my ui page Client script :

uBest regards,

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

since it is readonly you cannot set it unless you try to make it readonly false

g_form.setReadOnly('author', false);

// then set the value.

If this doesn't work then use GlideAjax and update the author using Script Include function which would definitely work

Regards
Ankur

[hind]

Hi,

thank you for your reply
certainly the author field is read-only but I can modify it if the status is one of: Draft, Review, Sheduled for publish in this case my script works very well it changes the author and saves the modification

Best Regards,

[Ankur Bawiskar]

try either of the approaches and it should work fine

If my response helped you please mark it correct to close the question so that it benefits future readers as well.

Regards
Ankur

[hind]

Hi,

More details for the GlideAjax?

thanks!