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

[David Glick]

On 11/13/11 8:14 PM, Karl Johan Kleist wrote:
> David Glick-3 wrote:
>> That is also an option, but doesn't quite meet the use case that was
>> described (if the user lacks the write permission and the form is in
>> input mode, then the field will not show up at all, rather than showing
>> up disabled).
>>
> Also if the user has read permission to the field? That's sort of silly
> behavior, isn't it?
>
The write permission is checked if the field is in input mode, and the 
read permission is checked if the field is in display mode. Making it 
use the read permission and switch the mode to display if the write 
permission check fails might be reasonable.


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