LJ, you are correct. Turns out I had some rogue workflow that was changing it back to the original data. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that Read Only fields could not be pushed to.
Turned off the workflow (I'm going to actually delete it) and everything is working as it should. Thanks so much! Lisa ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Display as Text for Character Field ** Read Only is only a client attribute only....push or set should work into it without issue. What is the problem you are specifically having pushing into it? You shouldn't need to push into another field and then set into this one. Is it giving you error? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Display as Text for Character Field ** I'm having problems pushing data directly to the Read Only field. I think that's the problem. I have to probably push it to another field on the form and the do a "set fields" to update the Read Only field. I'm testing this now. All the other suggestions are good, but I want to keep the "look and feel" of this field as Read Only. If I do what the others suggest, then the field will look as though it is writable. Lisa ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Display as Text for Character Field ** Lisa, The field being 'read only' should have NO impact on your ability to set the field to something via workflow....when you say you can't, what sort of problem are you getting? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Display as Text for Character Field ** I originally set up a character field as Read Only, when a customer is modifying or adding a record, they cannot change this field. When they do a search on this form, a Change Action makes this field Read/Write. (I don't want anyone to change it, but I don't mind if they search on the field). Plus I don't want to make my users use the advanced search option, I want to make it easy. Well, I need some workflow to update this field from time to time, but it won't let me because the field is Read Only. No biggee, I'll just change this field to Display as Text. (even though I don't like Display as Text sometimes, I always end up having to draw a little box around the field). But there is no Change Action to turn off this Display as Text setting when the users are doing a search on the form. Am I missing anything? Is there an easy solution to this? I'm working on the WUT (ARS 7.5 p4) AR System Server 7.1 p7 Oracle 10g Lisa Kemes AR System Developer Tyco Electronics 717-810-2408 tel 717-602-9460 cell [email protected] _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
