Hi Team,
I have a requirement where I want to restrict users from copy and paste from a Form controls.
I know about password style property but it will not work for date and real controls.
can someone please suggest me, how to disable copy and paste option for date and real controls. ?
is it possible?
Thanks
Hi D365 Wibes,
Copy and paste are basic Windows features which are intended to improve the productivity of users.
What is the business reason for blocking this?
Hi Andre,
thanks for your response.
Actually there are some sensitive data and my client does not want them to be copied and pasted from AX form.
Hence I am looking for a way to achieve this?
Is it acceptable for you that users couldn't use Ctrl+C, but they still can copy the value from HTML, export the data to Excel and copy it from there, save the whole page, export the page to PDF (and either share it or copy the value from there) and so on? Does it really solve anything?
Users already have the the data on their machines, so you can't prevent them from working with it. You could merely make it a bit more complicated.
HI Martin,
Thanks for your response.
is there any way to refrain users from doing all this via x++.
I mean they can just view the data it is . They should not be able to (copy, paste, export to pdf or excel)
Please let me know if there is any way to do this
No, there is no way. When you send the value as HTML text to user's computer, X++ code running in the Azure data center has no control over it anymore. The user already has the data.
You need decide whether you want to show the data to the given user or not. And when you do it, you must accept that he can copy the value, write it down on a piece of paper, save the page to a file, make a screenshot and so on...
Thanks Martin,
just one more question.
I saw some where using C# code we can lock the mouse cursor.
At least if we can achieve this in x++ then user cannot copy value from a control?
Please correct me if i am wrong
and please let me know if we can at least achieve above in x++?
No, it can't be done. X++ runs on a web server and it has no access to resources on users computers. The web page is processed by user's web browser.
You could theoretically do something with Javascript, but it would still solve almost nothing, therefore I wouldn't invest any time to it.
Thanks a lot Martin.
If you said it cant be done then I will close this .
Thanks again
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