Drop down lists are active in PDF when received by email

Question

Hello,
I have a form with drop down lists and the form is set so that when the user submits it, the PDF form is sent, not the XML file. The problem is that when I receive the PDF form, the drop down lists are active and I can change the items in the list. Is there a way to disable this so that when the PDF form is received no changes to the form can be made?
Thank you.

Answer 1

I think you need to have a flag in a hidden field that indicates that the form has been submitted.  You could set that flag on the form's pre-submit event.  On the form's initialize event, check the flag.  If it's been set (i.e. the form has been submitted before), programatically lock down the form.  Here's a tidy little (untested) recursive function that locks down the form:<br /><br />lockDown(xfa.form.nodes);<br /><br />function lockDown(oNodes) {<br />     for (var i=0; i<oNodes.length; i++) {<br />          if (oNodes.item(i).className == "subform")<br />               lockDown(oNodes.item(i).nodes);<br />          else               <br />               oNodes.item(i).access = "readOnly";<br />     }<br />}<br /><br />Jared Langdon<br />http://www.jlangdon.ca