Is there any way to set a field as read only in orchard

[AmadeuAntunes]

I'm trying to create a textbox field as readonly, is it possible using some setting or "recipe"?

[tropcicstefan]

There is no readonly text field editor "out of the box" in Orchard. But it should be pretty simple. First look at this link.

In essence you should make new textfield editor.

Look at OrchardCore.ContentFields-> Views. There focus on TextField.Edit.cshtml and TextField.Option.cshtml. Copy those two views to your module and change their names to TextField-Readonly.Edit.cshtml and TextField-Readonly.Option.cshtml. In Edit view add readonly HTML attribute to input field. In option view change option line like so
<option value="Readonly" selected="@(currentEditor == "Readonly")">@T["Readonly"]</option>

On your content part change editor of text field.

[AmadeuAntunes]

I've placed it in Views folder and worked, is it possible to move it for other folder inside Views ?

[panayiotisp]

You can add them in a separate module if you want to have them in a different area than your other module's views

[hishamco]

I'm wondering how you can add the values for such fields.

[panayiotisp]

This will be done from code (C#) or from the front end part itself.

[hishamco]

It could be, for that I prefer @tropcicstefan suggestion #8461 (comment)

[panayiotisp]

I am not contradicting @tropcicstefan. I am actually using his suggestion as well. I just replied to the part you asked how would the field values be inserted/updated if the field in the admin is readonly. In this case you can update them either from the frontend of the website or from code (like for example a background task that will sync data between another system and your website content item store).

[hishamco]

It's a good addition that can help some of us. I might add it to Orchard Core Contrib if there's no plan to have it in OC