I can certainly workaround it by putting the age calculation in the onvalidation function; and then when it is accepted I reread the record and recreate the form.
However it is inconsistent with the book that a readable compute field is not shown on the form; and is not the most obvious behaviour that a non-writable compute field is not updated. On Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:30:13 UTC+1, pbreit wrote: > > Pretty much what Richard said. If you don't want the computed > functionality, just write the logic in the controller.

