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• allan Posts: 63,689Questions: 1Answers: 10,500 Site admin

  August 2023 Answer ✓

  Yes, similar to the other field types, datatable can be enabled and disabled (field().enable() and field().disable()).

  Combine those two method with the initCreate and initEdit events and you can enable and disable the field as needed - e.g.:

  editor.on('initCreate', function () {
    editor.field('myDataTable').enable();
  });
  
  editor.on('initEdit', function () {
    editor.field('myDataTable').disable();
  });
  

  Allan
• colin Posts: 15,240Questions: 1Answers: 2,599

  August 2023

  This example from this thread is doing something similar to what you want. It's using field().enable() to make the age field editable on creation, but read-only afterwards.

  Is that what you were after? Or did you want the field to not appear on the form? If so, you could use field().hide() instead for that.

  Colin
• unibocconi-ltcc Posts: 14Questions: 4Answers: 0

  August 2023

  Thank you all for the suggestions and hints!

  The type "datatable", when disabled, can however be searched and the pagination is active. I found this confusing.

  So I came up with the approach of creating a new field and then show it an populate it when needed:

      const myField = 'MY_FIELD';
      editor.add({label: myField + ':', name: myField + '_READONLY', type: "readonly", def: ""}, null);
  
      editor.on('initCreate', function () {
          editor.enable(myField);
          editor.show(myField);
          editor.hide(myField + '_READONLY');
      });
  
      editor.on('initEdit', function(e, node, data, items, type) {
          editor.disable(myField);
          editor.hide(myField);
          editor.set(myField + '_READONLY', data[myField]);
          editor.show(myField + '_READONLY');
      });
  
• allan Posts: 63,689Questions: 1Answers: 10,500 Site admin

  August 2023

  Sounds like a nice solution

  Allan