Enable form field

Can someone please tell me how to enable\disable a field on a form.

Subject: Enable form field

I think you need to be more specific- if a field is on the form, it is “enabled” and there is no way to disable it w/ out deleting it (or, I guess hiding it) Your Subject line makes me wonder if you are playing w/ a field called “Form” which can have many unintended side effects as “Form” is an internal Notes field.

Subject: RE: Enable form field

Most types of fields have an “input enabled” formula (near the input validation formula) that lets you write a formula returning True or False whether the field should be editable at that moment. Is that what you want?

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Subject: RE: Enable form field

But unfortunately the field HAS to be displayed in OS style for “input enabled” to work in 6.5.

Subject: Enable form field

Unlike VB or the like, you can’t disable a field in Notes. The best way to do it is to have a field and a computed text for the same item and use hide-when formulas to show the computed text when it should be disabled and the field when it’s enabled.