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• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  October 2020

  I think you can use the initEdit event and use disable() in the event to disable the field. Maybe something like this:

  editor.on('initEdit', function() {
      editor.disable('blog_comments.comment');
  });
  

  Kevin
• rmeetin Posts: 100Questions: 24Answers: 1

  October 2020

  To the html file I added it as:

  editor
  .on( 'postCreate postRemove', function () {
  table.ajax.reload( null, false );
  } )
  .on( 'initCreate', function () {
  editor.field( 'blog_comments.rowOrder' ).enable();
  } )
  .on( 'initEdit', function () {
  editor.field( 'blog_comments.rowOrder' ).disable();
  editor.disable('blog_comments.comment');
  } );
  } );

  Other than graying out the text it is still editable - and the edits save.
• colin Posts: 15,177Questions: 1Answers: 2,590

  October 2020 edited October 2020

  This example from this thread should help - it's disabling the Age field on edit, but it's writable on creation.

  The key code is:

    editor.on('preOpen', function(e, mode, action) {
      if (action === 'create') {
        editor.field('age').enable();      
      }
      else {
        editor.field('age').disable();
      }
    });
  

  Colin
• rmeetin Posts: 100Questions: 24Answers: 1

  October 2020

  I do appreciate the pointers however it still isn't working. Here is the code with the previous attempt commented out:

    editor
  
      .on('preOpen', function(e, mode, action) {
        if (action === 'create') {
          editor.field('blog_comments.comment').enable();
        }
        else {
          editor.field('blog_comments.comment').disable();
        }
      } )
  
      .on( 'postCreate postRemove', function () {
        table.ajax.reload( null, false );
      } )
  
      .on( 'initCreate', function () {
        editor.field( 'blog_comments.rowOrder' ).enable();
      } )
  
      /*
      .on( 'initEdit', function () {
        editor.field( 'blog_comments.rowOrder' ).disable();
        editor.disable('blog_comments.comment');
      } )
      */
      ;
  
    } );
  

  Just to see, I switched enable to disable in the create action if; didn't expect any impact and wasn't disappointed.
• rmeetin Posts: 100Questions: 24Answers: 1

  October 2020

  Are there any corresponding changes I might make in the controller file?
• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  October 2020 edited October 2020

  I don't use CKEditor but it looks like this might be the way to make it read only:
  https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/latest/features/readonly.html

  Maybe something like this will work::

  {
    label: 'Comment',
    name: 'blog_comments.comment',
    type: 'textarea',
    type: 'ckeditorClassic',
    opts: {readOnly: true}
  },
  

  The plugin uses this conf._editor = CKEDITOR.replace( id, conf.opts ); when opened so I'm guessing you can use opts to pass the readOnly option.

  Kevin
• rmeetin Posts: 100Questions: 24Answers: 1

  October 2020

      {
        label: 'Comment',
        name: 'blog_comments.comment',
        type: 'ckeditorClassic',
        opts: {readOnly: true}
      },
  

  I appreciate the assistance yet it remains editable. I'm fairly certain that I can do some jerry-rigging in the php controller file to, essentially, restore a comment to previous saved text, however those hacks can be ugly. Any other ideas?
• vincmeister Posts: 136Questions: 36Answers: 4

  January 2021

  Hello,
  any solution of this case?

  Danny
• colin Posts: 15,177Questions: 1Answers: 2,590

  January 2021

  This here worked for me : https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/1886 - it needs

              editor.isReadOnly = true;
  

  set,

  Colin
• vincmeister Posts: 136Questions: 36Answers: 4

  June 2021

  Hi @colin
  Sorry for my very late reply
  where to put that code? Need advise, thank you

  Danny
• colin Posts: 15,177Questions: 1Answers: 2,590

  June 2021

  I forgot myself and had to go back over it! It's in the ckEditor plugin code, something like this:

      enable: function ( conf ) {
          conf._editor.isReadOnly = true;
      },
  

  Colin