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How to block a field from editing through the interface

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Hi,
When requisitions are created, the financial dimensions are auto populated from the Human resources user profile.
Some users modify them manually and we would like to restrict the Main account to be changed (or restrict all the financial dimensions fields in this screen) from editing.

Is there a way to do it with no customization (if we have to do it through security, a new privilege needs to be created by a developer and I would like avoiding a developer to get involved).

Thank you !
Kamel Sadek
Business Analyste.

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Kevin Xia Microsoft Employee on at

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How to block a field from editing through the interface

Hi,

I checked the relevant information and found no way to control the permissions of fields without the help of custom development, and in the security-related module, only the permission control of the table, not accurate to the field level, as shown in the screenshot:

Perhaps you can refer to this document, which describes how to control permissions on fields, and may involve some development content: alexdmeyer.com.

Best regards,

Kevin

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Martin Dráb 237,662 Most Valuable Professional on at

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How to block a field from editing through the interface

It'll need development and you can't do it by security, as far as I know.

I believe the best place for this logic is PurchReqDefaultDimensionEntryController class.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,716 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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How to block a field from editing through the interface

Hi Kamel,

Using security, you can restrict editing of all the dimensions, not individual dimensions. So, it is possible to make all Financial dimensions read-only or not visible at all via security. If you need to lock only one dimension, this will require a customization like Martin mentioned.

When you want to try the security approach, you can restrict access to the control groupFinancialDimension. The next screenshot shows how this is managed on the standard privilege Maintain purchase requisitions. If you configure a privilege with Read access granted and Update unset, the dimensions will be read only.

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