Readonly filed on List View

The easiest way to apply readonly only to a single view is to edit the view's definition.

So in your 

custom/modules/<module>/clients/base/views/list/list.php

find the filed in question, and add: 

'readonly'=>true

as one of the properties.

For example, you can see in the stock Accounts list view, the date_entered is read only.

This particular field happens to be readonly in all the views but there is nothing stopping you from setting it only on the list.php and not the record, create. preview etc.

                array (
                    'name' => 'date_entered',
                    'type' => 'datetime',
                    'label' => 'LBL_DATE_ENTERED',
                    'enabled' => true,
                    'default' => true,
                    'readonly' => true,
                ),

If, on the contrary, you want the field to be readonly across all views, you should do that via Studio:

FrancescaS

One note regarding the 'Read Only Field' attribute in Studio is that it is only available for text area and HTML-type fields.

EDIT: I stand corrected! I just ready Kishan Singh 's post and he is correct. If you disable the Mass Update option, it is an available option for any field type. I was going off the documentation for the feature.

Good point.
So the question Technical Team is what type of field is this?

What is the business decision behind this needing to be read-only?

Another solution, and probably the best one if Studio doesn't let you set the filed to read only, is to limit the access using Field-level access control via Roles

Admin users would have access to edit that field, but no one else would.

See above! I was incorrect and the field type should not matter :-)

It makes perfect sense that Mass Update and Read Only would be mutually exclusive. Thanks!

Thank you Francesca Shiekh  i have applied the above approach, and it is working fine for me, but i need to apply on preview also, because it is still editable in preview mode,
however you already mentioned that this is working on on list view.


please note, my custom field type is TextField

So you used Studio to set the field to read only but it is still editable in Preview?

I'm not able to reproduce that in Enterprise v12. What version are you working with?

currently i'm using Sugar (version 10.0.2)

could you please suggest about conditionally readonly field

for example: if 'status' = abc then 'custom field' should readonly.

You can define a ReadOnly condition by using Dependency Actions