SharePoint/Office Toolbox is a mixed bag of utilities and integration tooling to enhance out-of-the-box features.

SharePoint Lists - Form Settings

Form Settings allows you to modify default New, Edit, and Display Forms. You can show/hide specific fields across all form types; mark select ones to be in read-only mode while editing an item in a list.
http://weblogs.asp.net/sharadkumar/archive/2008/07/29/how-to-customize-sharepoint-forms-part-2.aspx

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Last edited Jul 29 at 6:12 AM by eJugnoo, version 9
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Also available: 2 reviews for current release.

asembler wrote  Aug 7 at 9:36 AM 
Got a very weird error while trying to install this on my prod box. Here is what it says under Solution Properties in Central Admin:

Error:
Some of the files failed to copy during deployment of the solution.
Last Operation Details:
Server 1: http://blah.com/ : The solution was successfully deployed.
Server 2 : The channel 'ipc client' is already registered.
Serrver 3 : http://blah.com/ : The solution was successfully deployed.
Server 1 : http://blah.com/ : The solution was successfully deployed.

Any idea why this would be happening to me?
Server 2 is not even a web front-end. I'm using it to host Project Server.

eJugnoo wrote  Aug 8 at 6:22 AM 
Not able to make sense out of it since there is no reference to Blah.com in my solution!

Can you try restarting timer and admin service on your boxes, and/or app-pool too.

spykew wrote  Sep 19 at 6:36 PM 
This comment is simply to thanks you for making this available for us all.
I spent hours and hours using javascript trough webparts in order to configure my fields, and it was a "living hell".
Your solution offers an excellent and elegant way of achieving the same (or even better) results.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Roger

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