Visor's Protected Fields give you even more control over your data when combined with sharing and permissions. When a field is protected, that means that nobody can edit it— even those with owner-level access. By protecting your fields, you can be sure that the most important data in your workbook will stay exactly as you left it, no matter whom you share it with.

Protecting a field is simple. First, click the drop-down arrow in the header row of the field you'd like to protect. Then select "Protect field" from the drop-down menu. To remove field protection, select "Remove field protection" from the same drop-down menu.

Users are able to protect fields when in Table & Gantt view. Currently, protected fields are not supported in Timeline view.

It's helpful to think of field protections as comprised of two parts: restrictions on the field as a whole, and restrictions on the field values.

Field Restrictions

When a field is protected, users will not be able to rename or delete the field from the workbook. However, protected fields can be moved around and re-ordered in Table view.

Field Value Restrictions

Users cannot paste into a Protected Field, or revert any values in that field to the last sync. The values in a Protected Field cannot be changed on any records within any views within that folder.

If a Protected Field is a drop-down field, users will not be able to do the following:

If a date field is protected, certain restrictions will apply in the bars area of Gantt view. For example, if the Start Date field has been protected, users will not be able to move or drag the tile itself or drag the left side of the tile to edit the end date. However, users will still be able to drag the right side of the tile in order to change the End Date field (which, in this example, was not protected).

If a field is protected, users may still do the following (if their access level permits it):

Only workbook owners are able to enable and disable field protection. If there is more than one owner on a workbook, field protection can be disabled by any of the workbook owners— not just the user who initially enabled it.

If a field has been protected, a shield will appear in that field's header row. The same shield symbol will also appear when selecting protected cells.

If a user attempts to edit a cell in a Protected Field within Table view or the grid in Gantt view, a message will appear reminding the user that the field is protected and cannot be edited.

If a connection field is protected, users will be unable to unlink any items that have been linked or link new items that are empty. However, users are still able to run imports and create records that are linked.

If the protected field is any type of connected field and it is the field that is used for the name of the connection (in the case of Jira, the summary field) users cannot edit that name either in the summary field or in the connection field.

Even if a connected field is protected, it only prevents users from changing that value for that particular linked issue. It does not prevent users from the following:

Finally, if a connected field has been protected, users will not be able to delete that connected field or delete the connection. Users will also be unable to toggle off fields that are protected from the "Edit Connection" modal.