Read Only Section in dynamics 365

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Hello Community Experts,

I want to make a section read only in lead entity, how do i achieve that?

Kindly guide,

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Sumaira Noor

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meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

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Hi,

You need to make all the fields within the section in readOnly mode.

You can use a business rule for this scenario

Maybe a JS code if the logic is more complex:

formContext.getControl(arg).setDisabled(bool);

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LuHao 40,892 on at

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Hi Sumaira,

We can directly set the field as a read-only field in the form editor.

Go to https://make.powerapps.com/, select the entity and edit the form.

Click the field, check Read-only field. Do this for all fields in the section.

Save and publish.

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Sumaira Noor 1,085 on at

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Thanks a lot for the response Mehdi and Lu

Since the logic is complex I'm trying to lock or unlock the section

I had earlier set the lock or unlock on form based on some condition, but there is another change they need, they do not want the entire form to be locked, they want specific tabs and sections to be locked/unlocked not all

Is the only way left is to lock/unlock individual fields as mehdi specified in the code or specific section can also be locked and unlocked?

Kindly Guide,

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Sumaira Noor

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meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

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Hi,

Please refer to this sample code, I lock all the fields located in the company section located in Summary tab

function disableSectionFields(executionContext) { var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext(); var summaryObj = formContext.ui.tabs.get("Summary"); var companyObj = summaryObj.sections.get("company"); var companyObjFields = companyObj.controls.get(); for (var i = 0; i < companyObjFields.length; i ) { companyObjFields[i].setDisabled(true); } }

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meelamri 13,216 User Group Leader on at

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Hi,

Any news about my last post ?

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Sumaira Noor 1,085 on at

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Thanks a lot for the help mehdi

Many thanks

This code worked

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Sumaira Noor

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I've confirmed that the verified answer (meelamri on 06 May 2020 at 13:36:56) confirmed works except there is a typo in the Javascript. There is no increment to the i variable in the loop.

It should read:

for (var i = 0; i < companyObjFields.length; i++ ) { companyObjFields[i].setDisabled(true);

After fixing this, I did the following to launch the fixed Javascript in the "On Load" event to automatically lock fields in a Section:

Uploaded my version of the Javascript (with the bug fixed) as an application component

Updated the form's "On Load" event

Left Table Column Dependencies blank

Set Handler to pull from the Library component where the Javascript function is stored

Set the Function field to the function name (disableSectionFields if you use meelarmri's function)

Turned on the Enabled checkbox

Turned on the "Pass execution context as first parameter"

I will be building on this logic to make any section conditionally Read Only using generic code that can be controlled using application logic.

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