Create a new row, lock prior row from editing

[nmjfaulknerII]

LCD 9, Acrobat 9, Windows 7

Gurus –

I am trying to make a table for comments, and when you create a new row the prior row will lock for editing.

To add a row I put a button in the table with this code:

_Row1.addInstance(true);
xfa.for.recalculate(true);

I am not familiar with the code to move through a table index, so have no idea how to set this up so that in addition to those two lines above , code will do something along the lines of access = “protected” for all cells in the prior row.

Ideas?

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

If you count the rows after you have added the new one, then you could use the .access method to set each object in the row to readOnly:

Something like:

_Row1.addInstance(true); 
var previousRow = _Row1.count - 2; // minus 2 to get to the zero based intance number of the previous row
var pRow = xfa.resolveNode("Row1[" + previousRow + "]"); 
// lock objects
pRow.object1.access = readOnly; 
pRow.object2.access = readOnly; 
pRow.object3.access = readOnly; 
pRow.object4.access = readOnly; 

You could do something more elegant, like a loop through the objects, but this should suffice as there probably arn't many objects in the row.

Hope that helps,

Niall

[nmjfaulknerII]

Niall -

Thanks.  I have set this up but no access changes are happening.  The button I have is in the HeaderRow if that makes any difference:

[Niall_O_Donovan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

First, my script was incorrect. The readOnly must be in double quotation marks, eg: = "readOnly";

Also, you have to drop the Row1 in the readOnly lines and it should work. This is because the reference to Row1 is included in the pRow variable.

For example:

pRow.comment.access = "readOnly";

Hope that helps,

Niall

[nmjfaulknerII]

That did it, thanks!  I had thought those "" were necessary, and had tried it but still had the Row1. in the code.  DOH!