Input Help for Read Only Inputfield

I have a requirement where an inputfield should be grayed-out so the user can't simply type whatever they want into the field. However, the user should still be able to change the value of the inputfield via the input help (F4). After searching around in the forums, I see that the only way to do this is to use a custom input help (as opposed to DDIC or OVS). I've done that, and it works fine when the inputfield is open. However, as soon as I set the inputfield to "Read Only", the input help button goes away.
How do I get the input help button to stay even though the field is set to "Read Only"?
Thanks,
Tom Peng

Hi,
I have a requirement where an inputfield should be grayed-out so the user can't simply type whatever they want into the field.
If the user shouldnot enter the data what ever he wants in input field ,you can use foreign key check ,
So that it throws an error message, when use enters the data other than the values in F4 help.
So with out making the field read only you can solve the problem.
Priya

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I'm part of the development team of a system with about 100 screens. The customer would like us to add some read-only functionality to the system, so that certain users are able to access the screens but not change any of the data on them. We already have policies in place on the database level that keeps read-only users from saving data, but it's not very user friendly to allow users to change data on a screen, only to tell them that they're not allowed to save those changes once they try to do so. It would clearly be better if all components are rendered as read-only components for read-only users, making them unable to make any data changes in the first place.
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Andreas

Hi Guna, Puthanampatti and Don,
Thanks a lot for your replies. I'm currently looking into implementing something along the lines of what Guna has suggested:
Our application consists of a number of individual work spaces that are deployed as adflibs which have all been added to a "master application work space", and the master application is deployed as an .ear file. Most of the individual work spaces are for all the different functional areas of the application, with their own task flows, page fragments etc. The rest are work spaces with common functionality, like datamodel (entity definitions), utility methods, page templates, and framework extensions. In the latter, we have defined custom classes for all the base classes (somewhat similar to what Don describes, I believe).
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But while running the program i am getting the error message " Invalid operation for read only resultset: updateString " with error code 17076.
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In the first suggestion, I'm unclear about one aspect of how I would accomplish this. I assume I would allow people to modify fields in the form, but that when they did, a msgbox would pop up that would inform them that, if they continued with this modification to a signed form, the signature would be removed. I'm all good to that point. But if they answered that they do not want to continue modifying that field and removing the signature, how can I code it to set the value back to what it was before the change? Is there some method that will give me access to the value of the field BEFORE the attempted modification? I went looking for something like $.previousvalue, but found nothing.
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We are using SRM 4.0 with backend ECC 5.0.
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