Karen, If you name your component IDs in an organized way with a prefix or suffix by what you want to do with it, you can then use a wildcard specification in your property commands. Use your 'many' character setting.
>From the help screens for the PROPERTY command: *ComponentID * The unique identifier that you assign to the component when you insert the > object. A field is located in the object properties dialog menu > (right-click) for all objects that are placed on forms. The unique > identifier within the PROPERTY command must match the unique identifier > listed in the object properties.* Wildcards are supported for altering the > properties of multiple components. * Bill On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > After I already have this big form designed (many tabs, many fields), > client decides he wants the form to come up in read-only mode and be able to > click an "edit" button to make the whole thing editable. I know I could > bring the form up with "browse using", and have an "edit" button close the > form and reopen it with an edit.... But the form already takes quite a long > time to load and I don't think he'll be happy with waiting for it to load > again. > > Is my only other option to assign the componentID to each field one-by-one > on the form? No way to mass-assign the same componentID to a bunch of > fields, right? > > Just want to make sure I'm not missing something I could be doing. > Trade-off on form loading time vs. programming time to do the compID thing. > > > Karen >
