How to enable copy of readonly content in confiforms using dialog

[Yiting]

Hello Alex @Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ , I have built a form A and B. In form A it's used to track the status of some tasks , if the same CW and Year exist in form B, all content except for the CW and Year in form A are set read-only (It's like we are restricting users to edit past record). So for edit control of form A, when i choose copy, and update the CW (the copy is to reuse some information from past weeks to save extra efforts to re-enter them), all content are gone while becoming editable again. Is there anyway to avoid this situation? attached images are for better clarification

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Hi @Yiting 

So you have a 2 forms, and they are connected via the smart multi-row field, right?

What do you "copy"? The data in the form that the smart multi-row field is linked to or the data in the form that has a multi-row field?

Alex

[Yiting]

Hi Alex, thanks for the response. For the smart multi-row, I have another Form C to save the records.  Form B is the form we used to set read-only for form A for certain calendar weeks. Luckily I thought of away you responded in pervious post. I added the id:[empty] to my confiforms definition rule for read-only and reverse and it managed to keep the content for my Copy dialog and make them editable without disappearing.

Anyway, it's running OK now~

Maybe one additional question, how are the multi-row fields linked to the main form? Because previously, I used the copy confiforms data and create confiforms entry IFTTT to realize the similar effect of copying record provided by the confiforms edit control. The smart multi-row field is Activity, which I set Activity=[entry.Activity] in the IFTTT, in the "copies" generatedby IFTTT, they are using the same record in the Form C instead of generating same content in Form C. So I wonder, how the multi-row fields is linked to the main form and is it possible to duplicate recordS both in Form C and A?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Those are not linked in any way to the main form.

You can add that using something like a https://wiki.vertuna.com/spaces/CONFIFORMS/pages/180945550/How+to+use+the+Synchronize+smart+field+references+ConfiForms+IFTTT+action but initially they are just links from the main form to the "sub forms", just like any other smart field in ConfiForms (but with a functionality to add items on the fly)