Fragment fields suddenly become editable from within the FORM

Question

When we added a schema to a form that contains fragments, suddenly the fragment fields became visible and editable from the FORM.  The fields in the fragment are normally not editable unless you edit the fragment. (Designer)
This is a huge concern for us, especially as we have new developers coming and going on this project.  It is my understanding that fragments should only be editable within the fragment xdp, not from within a form that the fragment is on.
This is a problem that we can repeat / reproduce.  Would like to know if it's a bug.
Please advise,
Thanks,
Elaine

Answer 1

Hi Elaine,
I thought this was a good thing that you can override fragment properties in the document that uses it.  Do you get a message "This fragment reference has local overrides to one or more properties of the source fragment" in the Warnings tab.
If you don't want the fragments properties to be override you could wrap the fragment in a custom object.
We have a fragment that has a multiline textfield with a character count and we use the ability to override the properties to update the databinding, caption, traversal, etc., this is then wrapped in a custom object so they can't update what they shouldn't.
The custom object looks something like this;
<subform usehref="..\..\Fragments\MultiLineTextField.xdp#som($template.form1.multiLineTextField)" name="name" x="0in" y="0in">
  <bind match="dataRef" ref="$"/>
  <draw name="questionNumber">
  </draw>
  <field name="value">
  <traversal>
    <traverse operation="next" ref="$"/>
  </traversal>
  </field>
</subform>
Bruce