I was asked by our APEX developer whether or not some fields of the tabular form created by wizard, except on a new row when “Add Row” is clicked, can be made read-only. This is a part of business requirements that the existing parameters should not be modified by end users.
I started searching for the existing solutions and found that most call for using the manually-created tabular form. However, one comment from this forum post suggested Javascript to perform task. Even though there was no code given, I’d like explore this option.
With information from Denes Kubieck’s Demo application and Patrick Wolf’s post on “Which Tabular Form Column is mapped to which Apex_Application.g_fxx array?”, this is the sample of my simple solution which uses Javascript to make fields read-only.
Please note that in this sample application, there are other things I included to show our developers. I added a page-level validation to ensure that there is no duplication in a selected field entry. Even though there is an unique constraint on this column, by using validation, it is more informative to users. The pop-up help reminds users that the field is protected and no duplication is allowed.
