Gotcha. If you need it to be editable, you can continue down the path of using a HTML-type variable (as Ankur mentioned below). If not, you can set that field read-only. Alternatively, you can use a custom widget. Either way, you'll use GlideAjax and a script include. If you need help getting started with GlideAjax, here's a post from a few weeks back that will help .