Or you could have Change Fields active links that fire on the various Window
Types.  On Query, it would leave the fields all enabled.  On Modify, each
field would only be enabled if the preceding one was populated and
validated.

Rick

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Kemes, Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> OK, here's another one, I'd like to lock down a drop down list field,
> but I would like the user to be able to type in the field when they are
> searching.
>
> The reason is: when they select the drop down list (list A), they have
> to first select 2 other drop down lists first (to get the data for the
> list A)
>
> But I don't want them to have to do that when they do a search.  I think
> I know that answer to this and it's "Use the Advance button."
>
>
> Lisa
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Search vs. Modify
>
> Yeah, create an active link that will do a change fields and set the
> field to read/write if the $OPERATION$ = "QUERY"
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:38 PM
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Search vs. Modify
>
> **
>
> Does anyone else consistently have this problem?
>
> I want to lock down some of my character fields (by switching them to
> Read Only) on the modify screen, but on Search, I'd like this field to
> be open for searches so that my users don't have to use the Advanced
> button to do searches.
>
> Lisa Kemes
> AR System Developer
> Tyco Electronics
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> 717-810-2124 fax
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