The XFA spec allows a field to have access="nonInteractive", but doesn't seem to be a way to set this within the Designer interface without resorting to hand-modifying the XML in the XML View.
I'm regularly running into scenarios where setting to using access="nonInteractive" is useful. The most common one is where I'm generating what is essentially a static PDF with a signature field on it. Within Designer, I have to make all the fields read-only but that's not the same as making the fields nonInteractive. The PDF with read-only fields is larger that the corresponding nonInteractive one and any temp fields that are populated using calculations must either have their values stored in the data (meaning that I either have to alter my schema to include them or else generate data that doesn't conform to my primary schema) or set the calculations to be runAt="both" which could potentially invalidate the signature.
nonInteractive fields are useful and it seems that it wouldn't be a lot of work to add support for them into Designer. Is there something I'm missing? Why aren't they in Designer now? Will we see support for them in 8.1?
Regards,
Rob
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