How to disable Item Property Edit

Hi Chenze, There are a few different ways to approach this.

1. You could convert this from an Item Property into a Relationship and then configure the permissions of the relationship to allow adding only by a Test manager
   • Cons: This does require changing the existing data model and moving data to this new relationship
   • Pros: This could make sense if an item can have multiple Testers
2. Attach on onFormPopulated event to the Form to check if the user is a Test Manager and disable the property if they are not
   • You can use aras.getIdentityList(); to get a comma separated list of IDs of the Identities the user belongs to
   • Pros: No changes to the data model
   • Cons: Only prevents users from editing the property on that specific form. Users can still edit the property through other means like AML

Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Hi Chris, many thanks for your reply. According to your suggestion. The first one is not suitable. In the second one, if I understand it right, the returned IDs are group identities (e.g. "Test Manager, Developers") that the currently logged in users belongs to? Again, is there a function to set property "not editable"? Thank you.

Hi chenze, Yes, the IDs returned are group Identities that the current user is a member of.  Once verifying that the user is not a Test Manager you can disable the field with a line like getFieldByName("YOUR_FIELD_NAME").getElementsByTagName("input")[0].setAttribute("disabled", "");. Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Hi Christopher, I following the above example and running this method attached to on From populate but I keep getting an error. I want to disable edit for everyone else except "PLM Aministrator" ****** aras.getIdentityList(); if (Identity != "PLM Administrator") { getFieldByName("dept_discipline").getElementsByTagName("input")[0].setAttribute("disabled", "1"); } else { ("disabled", "0"); } ****** The error I get is "even handler failed with message identity is not defined (function onformpopulated userhandler) What am I missing?

Hello, There's a few issues with the code in that example. The specific error message that's being thrown is saying that the Identity variable you're checking in the if statement was never defined. The sample below should offer the functionality you're expecting.

var identityList = aras.getIdentityList();
if (!identityList.includes("REPLACE THIS WITH THE ID OF PLM ADMINISTRATOR"))
{
getFieldByName("name").getElementsByTagName("input")[0].setAttribute("disabled", ""); // <-- The disabled attribute does not need a value to take effect.
}
else
{
// We don't want to do anything in this case. If we enable the field, it will be enabled even the item is locked.
}

You will need to update the line in the If statement to include the ID of the PLM Administrator Identity in your environment. You can find this ID by right-clicking on the item and selecting Properties. You can then click the Copy ID button to get the ID. Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Hi Chris, thank you for your help. I used your logic above but it was complaining about something else. I got this one to work the way I would like it to. However, it still allows input although it does not save the result. How can I completely restrict edit/input? var contextItem = document.thisItem; var reqs = contextItem.newItem("part", "get"); var identity = aras.getIdentityList(); var vField1 = getFieldByName("part_desc"); if (identity != "DBA5D86402BF43D5976854B8B48FCDD1"); vField1.disabled = true; vField1.readOnly = true; return;

Hello, The element returned by getFieldByName is not the input element for that field. You will need to disable the input by using code like vField1.getElementsByTagName("input")[0].setAttribute("disabled", "");. Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

ok, when I add that, I end up with this error " Unable to get property 'setAttribute' of undefined or null reference"

What kind of field is this? Is this a dropdown or a textarea or something else? Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Yes, this is a test Area. I am testing the method with one, eventually will have other fields, text and drop downs.