Multiline Textfield Read-only

[Corina Honegger]

Hi Alex

The new version is really great, congrats! 🙂
Unfortunately there is something strange when I try to make a multiline texfield (append mode) ready-only. It doesn’t show up the already written text. It just show the grey dashed field without the entries. Is there a way to show them either when it is not allowed to add new entries?

Thanks
Corina

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
This is currently not added to DFFS, but I have had other requests. This is a workaround you can use.

Add a function like this to the “Custom JS”

function appendHistory(){
	var history = $("#dffs_Textarea1").find("td.ms-formbody div.dffs_tdWrap div").has("a").html();
	$("#dffs_Textarea1").find("td.dffs-readonly-inner div.dffs_tdWrap").append("<div style='margin:2px;padding:3px;border:2px silver dashed;background-color:#ffffff;'>"+history+"</div>");
}

You must change “Textarea1” to your own FieldInternalName.

Then add a call to this function on the rule that sets the field read only (in the “Run these functions” field).

Let me know how this works out.

Alexander

[Corina Honegger]

This fix works for me, thank you very much! 🙂

[Jeff Lynch]

I’m trying to implement this and it comes back as “undefined” what might I have missed here. We had issues with the field internal name because it had underscores that were converted to the code, before changing them we got a syntax error due to the field internal name, after changing it to underscores it just comes back as undefined.

Here is the function:
function appendHistory(){
var history = $(“#dffs_Worklog_x0020_History”).find(“td.ms-formbody div.dffs_tdWrap div”).has(“a”).html();
$(“#dffs_Worklog_x0020_History”).find(“td.dffs-readonly-inner div.dffs_tdWrap”).append(“”+history+””);
}

and here is the field internal name the way it appears: Worklog%5Fx0020%5FHistory

again with the original field internal name we get a syntax error, and with the modified name we get “undefined”

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. You can see the fieldinternalname in the “List fields” tab in DFFS backend. Ensure you have the correct field name.

Alexander

[Alexander Bautz]

I’m bumping this old question with an updated solution for later versions of DFFS.

Add this to your Custom JS:

function appendHistory() {
    var fin = "YOUR_FIELD_NAME";
    jQuery("#dffs_" + fin).find(".append_history_placeholder").remove();
    var history = $("#dffs_" + fin).find("span[dir='none']").next().html();
    jQuery("#dffs_" + fin).find(".dffs-readonly-inner").append("<div class='append_history_placeholder'>"+history+"</div>");
}

Replace YOUR_FIELD_NAME with the internal name of your multiline append field.

Then, in the rule you use to set the field readonly, call the function appendHistory in the Run these functions / evaluate these rules field.

Alexander

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