[pmwiki-users] prevent wikiform field value from being changed (david roundell)

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Sun Jul 20 16:45:28 CDT 2008


>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:28:48 +0100
>From: david roundell <roundelld at hotmail.com>
>hellois there a way once a form has been created to dis-allow
>editing of certain fields?for example, a form is created with a
>server name, that is unlikely to change. could the editeform
>for certain fields subsequently be greyed out to stop
>accidental changes to that field, if someone then wants to
>revise that form?i'd prefer to keep the wiki open and avoid
>having to use authuser (or the like). i'm not talking malicious
>users just accidental ones!thanks againdavid

Try installing the latest version from Cookbook/WikiForms.
Here is how I think this will now work:

1. define a text field using one of (!) or ("default text"!)
   or (!=nn) or ("default text"!=nn) where nn is the size of
   the text box

2. creating new pages with the form should work as before

3. on action=editeform it *should* display, but not allow
   changes to, the field value

4. to over-ride the display and force a change, you *should*
   be able to add &fieldname=newvalue to the page address
   after the ?action=editeform and it *should* display and
   save the new value

Let me know if this causes any problems or side-effects.


JR 
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