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• Aliases
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• Attaching a Library to the Current Workspace
• Automatic Recovery of Indexes
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• Cannot Refresh Workspace Problem
• Clearing the Record Filter
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• Creating Periodic Backups
• Disallow Edits
• Dropping Tables or Sets from a Workspace
• Exporting Selected Records from a Table
• Expression Library
• Filtering Records to Include Multiple Field Values
• Font Equation Genie
• Global Scripts
• Go to Record Number
• List View Genie
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• Moving Selected Records to another Table
• Multi-User Architectures
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• Using Addin Variables to Create a Multi-Database Application
• Using an Index to Find a Record
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• Using the New Table Set Genie
• Using the Shortcut Genie
• Using the Spell Check
• Using Transactions
• Working with Databases
• Workspace Specifications
• Zip Database
• Zip Tables, Sets, and Databases
• Zoom to Record

 

Disallow Edits

Description

The Disallow Edits action prevents the user from making any changes to records in the specified form or browse window. If the data entry style is set to modal, then edits will automatically be disallowed after the record is saved.

Procedure

1. Make a selection in the Disallow editing of the records in which Form/Browse window? field. This field will be grayed out unless this action is based on a Form or Browse. The choices are:

   • "Current Form or Browse Window".

   • "Another Form or Browse Window".

2. If you selected "Another Form or Browse Window", in the Window Name field select either:

   • "Forms"
   • "Browses"

3. Select one of the listed forms or browses.

4. Click Next >.

5. Optionally modify the comment that describes the action.

6. Click Finish.

Limitations

Desktop applications only. Not available in Community Edition.

See Also

• <OBJECT>.ALLOW_CHANGE()