[Product-Developers] dexterity [newbie] : how to disable a Field widget

T. Kim Nguyen nguyen at uwosh.edu
Sat Nov 12 05:35:01 UTC 2011


Hi David - we've had that particular use case a few times here: we want to populate a student ID field but don't want the student to be able to change it, while a staff member filling out the object on behalf of the student might need to change it.

	Kim

On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:25 PM, David Glick wrote:

> On 11/9/11 1:16 AM, gnafou wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 1/Developping my first dexterity product, i've been trying to 'disable' a field widget .. but could not find how ( i have default values that should be visible but must not be changed ) 
>> maybe i should do that with a specific css style ??
> I don't think Dexterity has support for this without creating a customized widget. It seems like an unusual use case to me. Why do you need to show something without letting the user change it?
> 
> One way to do it would be with javascript when the page loads.
>> 2/ I was wondering if it s possible to add an html paragraph in the body of the form
> You can use HTML in field descriptions. Otherwise you need to create a custom edit form (see Dexterity manual) and customize the template.
> 
> cheers,
> David
> 
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