How do you make a text field Read Only after it is saved and distibuted?

Flattening makes a interactive form an image essentially. All dynamic and interactive behaviour is removed.

Steve

Steve,

Thank you so much for getting back to me, I really appriecate it.

I found a post (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1958770#1958770) that had the following code, which works great for what I am needeing!

But, after I save the form as another name and reopen it, the fields are no longer protected.  Would "flattening" make it so.  And if I "flattened" my form will the dynamic table rows continue to work?  I don't know much about this Flattening process and this is the first I have heard about it, so I am a bit unsure if that is the route I need to take.

In the click event have something like this:

var nButton = app.alert({
    cMsg: "Warning after locking this alert, you will not be able to unlock it. \n\nDo you want to lock this alert?",
    cTitle: "Assure HSC",
    nIcon: 1, nType: 2
});
if ( nButton == 4 )
{
     // Get the field containers from each page.
     for (var nPageCount = 0; nPageCount < xfa.host.numPages; nPageCount++)

     {
          var oFields = xfa.layout.pageContent(nPageCount, "field");
          var nNodesLength = oFields.length;
          // Set the field property.
          for (var nNodeCount = 0; nNodeCount < nNodesLength; nNodeCount++)

               {
                    oFields.item(nNodeCount).access = "protected"; // locks all fields
               }
     }
   
     // save value of lock
     Lock.rawValue = "1"; // sets the value of a flag

     quantityfield1.access = "open"; // specify the fields you want available to the client
     quantityfield2.access = "open";
     quantityfield3.access = "open";

     padlockopen.presence = "invisible"; // this is the static image of a padlock

}  

In the Layout: Ready event of the button, you would have a check on the value of the flag (Lock.rawValue):

if (Lock.rawValue == "0")
{
    // Get the field containers from each page.
     for (var nPageCount = 0; nPageCount < xfa.host.numPages; nPageCount++)

     {
          var oFields = xfa.layout.pageContent(nPageCount, "field");
          var nNodesLength = oFields.length;
          // Set the field property.
          for (var nNodeCount = 0; nNodeCount < nNodesLength; nNodeCount++)

          {
               oFields.item(nNodeCount).access = "open"; // all fields open if Lock = 0
          }
     }

     padlockopen.presence = "visible";
}
else
{
    // Get the field containers from each page.
      for (var nPageCount = 0; nPageCount < xfa.host.numPages; nPageCount++)

     {
           var oFields = xfa.layout.pageContent(nPageCount, "field");
           var nNodesLength = oFields.length;
           // Set the field property.
           for (var nNodeCount = 0; nNodeCount < nNodesLength; nNodeCount++)

               {
                     oFields.item(nNodeCount).access = "protected"; // locks all fields
                }
      }
    
     // save value of lock
     Lock.rawValue = "1"; // sets the value of a flag
    
     quantityfield1.access = "open"; // specify the fields you want available to the client
     quantityfield2.access = "open";
     quantityfield3.access = "open";

     padlockopen.presence = "invisible"; // this is the static image of a padlock

}