With regards to preventing editing the document, you have two options:
Provided all "ordinary" users are ACL Author, and the document has an Authors field, containing the user (author name), you could simply remove the user from the authors field.
I suggest having a Computed when composed Text field that records the original author (Call it "CreatedBy"), formula: @UserName
The Authors field should be Authors, Computed, with a formula similar to:
@If(@Attachments = 0; CreatedBy; "");
Which would simply remove editing permissions for the user once the document has been saved with an attachment. A convenient side-effect is that Deletion is also removed.
Note that this method if fail-safe, and still allows users with Editor (or higher) ACL access to still edit/delete documents, thus allowing admin access.
Alternatively, you could use a more involved method:
Enter LotusScript code in the Form QueryOpen event and set Continue=False if Edit mode is requested by a non-admin user on a document with attachments. Enter similar code into the QueryModeChange event to prevent users from switching to edit mode.
Finally, you'll have to catch deletions by entering LotusScript code into the Database event QueryDocumentDelete.
The problem with this last method is that it is not fail-safe. A user can circumvent the code by simply enabling the debugger, and exiting out of thye event handlers, or simply write an agent that performs the deletion.
Hope this is enough to get you going. If you choose the Form event method, search the ND4-5 forum for examples
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/Search?SearchView&Query=queryopen%20and%20querymodechange%20and%20%22continue%3Dfalse%22&SearchOrder=0&Start=1&Count=100
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