{"id":126,"date":"2005-06-28T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/06\/28\/disabling-the-dynamic-block-editor\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:52:24","slug":"disabling-dynamic-block-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/06\/disabling-dynamic-block-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling the Dynamic Block Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body\">If you have started delving into dynamic Blocks you know that it is a very robust tool. You also know that it may be something you don&#8217;t want every user playing with, or messing up your DBlocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">To Disallows opening of the Block Editor and editing of dynamic block definitions, Set BLOCKEDITLOCK to 1. When this variable is set to 1, double-clicking a dynamic block in a drawing opens the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Reference Edit<\/span> dialog box. 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