Lock a field in vb script

[#1]

Hi,

I try to lock a field using: ActiveDocument.Fields("myField").Lock OR ActiveDocument.GetField("myField").Lock

without success. Do i make a mistake?

If i look the property CanLoc: ActiveDocument.Fields("myField").Canlock the result is false

How can i enable this?

in more if i look ActiveDocument.Fields("myField").GetLocked() OR ActiveDocument.Fields("myField").IsLocked

it's false

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Make sure one or more values are selected in the field. Otherwise you can't lock the field.

[#3]

There are no possibility to lock a field without value selected?

I need to lock the fields because the user can't select a value as there are a lot of field to lock i use a vb script

sub lockTESTFields

    set flddescs = ActiveDocument.GetFieldDescriptions

    for i = 0 to flddescs.count -1

        fdesc = flddescs(i)

        if InStr(1,fdesc.Name,"CCA")>0 then

            'fdesc.Lock

            ActiveDocument.Fields(fdesc.Name).Lock

            temp=ActiveDocument.Fields(fdesc.Name).CanLock

'msgbox fdesc.Name&" "&temp

            'MsgBox ActiveDocument.Fields(fdesc.Name).GetLocked()

            if fdesc.IsLocked then

                MsgBox "ok=="&fdesc.Name

            'else

                'MsgBox "NOK=="&fdesc.Name

            end if

        end if

    next

end sub

[#4]

if i load all the possible values for every field, i'm out of memory so my alternative is to lock every fiel one per one in parameter -> trigger at the open of the document