Readonly Field Behaviour In Orbeon Forms

We have an issue with the field readonly behaviour in Orbeon Forms. We usually write conditions in the bind definitions to tell when a field should be readonly, so when the conditi

Solution 1:

At this point, as you noticed, Orbeon Forms generates disabled="disabled" on read-only form fields, not readonly="readonly", and this cannot be changed without changing Orbeon Forms.

A possible solution to your problem is to use the static appearance for read-only controls, which just shows the values of fields, in a way similar to what an xf:output would do, rather than the read-only form field. This is typically useful for very easily creating review pages, where you show users all the values they entered before submitting them.