Hi,

We have created a SharePoint site column with below settings

1. ShowInEditForm - False
2. ShowInNewForm - False
3. ShowInDisplayForm - True

With the above definition, the site column showing only in view properties form not in New and Edit forms.  This column is added to a document library and updating this column value will be managed by event receiver code when a document is uploaded. Till this point, everything is working OK.

But the issue is when we download and open a document from the above document library, under document properties the above column (with value) is visible along with other document default properties and  this column value is editable. With this issue, user is able to set a new value and overwrite the existing value by re-uploading the document.

Could you please let me know how to handle this issue so that user should not be allowed to edit except viewing the value/property (read only)?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Ramesh

You can set "ShowInFileDlg" property of field to "FALSE". Using this you will not see that field in document properties list