prevent fields from editing submission

Hello Jotform

We provide the Edit link so the submitter can come back and edit their submission.

However, there are two fields we do not want them to be able to edit after their initial submission.

I know we can use the widget to tell us the URL of the page where the form appears, and we can base conditional logic on whether that URL contains "edit."

I know that we can make a text field Read-only, but I do not know how to make it read-only if they are in edit mode.

The only thing I can think of is to have, for instance, the following:

Let's call the fields that we do not want them to edit Field B and Field C.

Create two fields, which we will call Field D and Field E.

Field D shows the value from field A. (I think I saw that we can do that, but I do not recall how. Please remind me).

Likewise, field E shows the value from field B.

If the web page where the form appears DOES NOT HAVE "edit" in the URL, then hide fields D and E are hidden.

If the web page where the form appears DOES HAVE "edit" in the URL, then hide fields B and C.

Is that the way you would do it? If so, please remind me how to make fields D and E show the value of fields B and C.

Thank you!

Robert

You may use conditions to either hide the fields or set it to read-only once the form is edited.

To setup this up:

1)add a get form Page URL widget . This widget will let the condition know that the form is edited.

https://www.jotform.com/widgets/get-form-page-url

2)Use condition to hide or set the field to be required once the form is edited.

Please check it out and let us know how it goes.

Hello JF

I understand that.
You did not say, is there a way that I can use conditions (URL contains “edit”) to prevent a field from being edited?

Thanks
Robert


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Hi Robert,

To disable a field, you may use the enable/required field condition, you can check this screenshot:

Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Thanks, but neither your note nor this article I found

https://www.jotform.com/help/371-how-to-enable-disable-fields-using-conditional-logic

says what "Disable" means.

Does it mean that the person can see the field (and if they are editing, they can see the prior value), but that they cannot enter or edit info?

I experimented with a sandbox form, and that seems to be the case. You might suggest they clarify that in the article.

You are correct, the user can see the field but they cannot input any values to the fields.

Thank you for your feedback.

If you need further assistance, let us know.

Thanks. All done on this ticket. I have some other tickets open, which I actually submitted before this.