Greetings!I have a form in which the “Default” rights is “Reader”.
In this form I have a Controlled Section and the “Edit” rights for this section is granted if field “EditSectionA” is “Yes”. This field (computed) is located at the top of the form - before the section - and evaluates if the current user is to be granted edit rights to that section. The formula for this field is working fine, but a strange thing happens and I don´t know where to look…
Whenever opening a document, a user WITHOUT rights to edit this section (field EditSectionA shows “No”) double-click the document trying to edit. The “edit mode” does not appear (brackets around editable fields, for example) but if the user double-clicks again in any area of the section, a dialog box appears, stating “Users that can edit this section”, with a radio button options “All Users” and “Only the Following Users”. This second option is selected, even thou the allowed users list is empty, but the user CAN change the initial option to “All Users” and save the document. Re-opening this doc will give the user full rights to edit this section.
I haven’t used these in awhile, but if I remember correctly, the controlled access section computes as the form opens - which is before your field will compute. So, the field “EditSectionA” needs to be set on the backend before the form is opened.
Good point, Robert. Thanks for the light.But I´ve been reading comments that the form computes top to bottom, and if I position this computed field BEFORE the computed section, this one will consider the results in that field as the mechanism to grant (or not) the desired access.
Besides rights and no-rights, whenever the average user opens the document, it appears as “non-editable” (the user has no access to edit). But, double-clicking this doc, it “appears” that it changes to Edit mode, even not showing the fields as editable (placeholders). Again with a double-click, it appears a dialog box showing “People and Groups that can edit this Document”. One of the options is “Everyone”. And this dialog box permits this choice. The user selects this opntion (“Everyone”) and is allowed to save the document. The he/she re-opens the same doc and… >>voilà!<< Edition enabled.
Anyway, I´ll try to compute the rights before opening the form and see what changes.