I wanted to ask, is it possible to remove the drop down functionality of a lookup field?
I want to keep the field as a lookup field as the dependent drop down feature is quite useful in my case but I don't want users to see the other values in the drop down?
The only idea I can think of is to use a Plumsail field and connect this to a Sharepoint lookup field and then set the value in the SharePoint field to whatever value the user has entered in the Plumsail field.
I think it would just add unnecessary clutter to the designer and possibly cause confusion to other developers who might fiddle with my forms.
[UPDATE]
I did some experimenting and I created a single line text field in SP and put the dependency on the single line text field and it has worked!
Please bear in mind that the single line text field is doing a lookup via JavaScript. Head to this post for a better understanding of what I mean: [RESOLVED] Lookup a field using Javascript