Created form in Livecycle Designer 8, send to 2nd party to complete some fields, want to lock those fields so that when sent to 3rd party to complete cannot edit

I am a newby to this product and have created a form from a PDF. I used Adobe Livecycle Designer to place text fields in form. I saved, then enabled user rights. I sent to 2nd party to open in Adobe reader. This person needs to populate some of the fields. Once this is done the 2nd person is to email to 3rd person who will complete the outstanding fields and return the form to the second person.
How do I stop the 3rd person from editing the text the second person put in the form?
I want the second person to receive the complete form back not just the responses put in the text fields? Does this happen automatically or do you have to tell it send complete form.
Thanks from Sandra in Australia

How do you save the file? Do you directly send it via mail with a button? (If the question is silly I'm sorry, because I have no lincenses... so I am completly unaware of the choices you have.)
You need to be able to save a file Reader Extension licenses I think...
Probably you should ask for the fake E-Mailbutton, to be able to send it to different people one after the other...
Make an invisible Decimalfield.
The preSave/preSubmit field javascript...:
this.rawValue = this.rawValue + 1
if (this.rawValue > 0)
{Decimalfield1.access="readOnly";}
if (this.rawValue > 1)
{Decimalfield2.access = "readOnly"}
will lock decimalfield1 after the first save/submit and decimalfield2 after the second. Normally that should do the job.
PS: Another way to save the document and lock ALL fields, you don't have to buy additional licenses is print it as pdf.

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