Submit not locking form

[carterve]

I have a form that when the submit button is selected, it locks a subform and sends a pdf doc.  However when I open the document it unlocks the form allowing for edits. How do I prevent this from happening?  I'm LC Designer ES 8.2.1

[Former Community Member]

Did you add script to lock the sub-form upon submission? Field locking is not default behaviour.

If you want the form to be non-editable by users subsequent to the original save, you will either have to flatten the document (make it not interactive basically) or add script to make fields read only.

Steve

[carterve]

Thanks for the swift reply, greatly appreciated. With my limited amount of knowledge, I put the code there and it works fine on the screen.  It's more than possible that i did not do it right.  I put the following code main.access = "readOnly"; I've tried it on the click and preSubmit events, but same results.  How would i use the flatten feature??  Thanks

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

The state of the form is not being saved by default .....in Designer under the File/Form properties/Defaults in the "Preserve Scripting chnages to form when saved" choose the Automatically option.

Paul

[carterve]

That worked great!.  Steve and Paul thanks for the assistance.