Hi,Thanks for your response. Yes, that is what I am trying to do and no, the drop down does not behave this way by default.I am currently using LiveCycle Designer Version 8.2.

Thanks, Jono and VJay.I was able to resolve this by placing all the other fields on one subform and the override buttonn alone on another subform and locking only the former.

I have text fields on this page along with Override button. I have written code to lock each and every field using below script:Form.Page.Field.access = "protected";But this is not working.So I locked whole page using Form.Page.access = "protected" script. It worked but Override button also got lock...

Thanks for the responses.@ruedesigns: No, the fields are not part of a Forms Object Collection.@kvdvijaykumar : All checked and verified that there is only one place where we are setting the access to the fields..

From my PDF,  I'm reading an external XML file that I pick up from a server share location. Based on the XML data, I am also reading another PDF, populating it with data from the XML and displaying the same to the user.. Hope this helps.

@George: thanks for the quick response!My JS code contains a readFileIntoStream which I learnt is also to be run under privileged context. (still learning the ropes here.. ).  I have been trying to incorporate the JS code directly into the PDF to get around this privileged context..  but I am unable...