'Display Only' grayed out in table column control properties

[EDekker]

Hi all,

One of our table column controls has the Display Only option grayed out. Also, setting the property from code has no effect. What could be the reason for this? The only explanation I can come up with is that the actual database column is a computed column (identity).

Screenshot to further illustrate my question: http://eddekker.nl/eBase/eBase_FLDCOL.png

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edwin

[Jon]

Edwin,

It's because you've got the hyperlink option checked, so display only doesn't mean anything because the opposite - editable - can't exist.

Regards
Jon

[EDekker]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your reply. Is there any way I can prevent the user from clicking the links?

Ed

[Jon]

If it's an external hyperlink, you can disable it but removing the href i.e.

controls.HYPERLINK1.setHref(null);

If it's internal, it will be harder. There are various jquery techniques - the best seems to be replacing the hyperlink with text.

[EDekker]

If it's an external hyperlink, you can disable it but removing the href i.e.

controls.HYPERLINK1.setHref(null);

If it's internal, it will be harder. There are various jquery techniques - the best seems to be replacing the hyperlink with text.

It's an internal link. I really wish there was a way to temporarily disable them.

Thanks again for your help!

Ed

[Jon]

Edwin,

You can "disable" an internal hyperlink with some jQuery Javascript like this. It replaces the link with the hyperlink's text.

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$('#hlink').each(function () {
    $(this).replaceWith($(this).text());
});

In this example, I have a hyperlink control which has an id of "hlink" assigned in HTML element properties. Then to disable it, add the code above to the appropriate event handler e.g. click, also using HTML element properties.

Regards
Jon