[Status: Backburner ⏳] Restrict or lock a task for editing
Sometimes, you simply need to prevent tasks being changed. The use cases are many, I will provide some at the end of this post.
Basic Info:
It would be amazing if there were a check-box or a task menu setting to mark a task as "locked for editing" that would simply allow the task to be viewed only (similar to the read only access role). The setting can be reversible, so if you want to allow editing simply uncheck the "locked for editing" box.
If the ability to edit this box was somehow tied to either access roles or license type that would be even more of a game changer. Say for example that one license type admin has the ability to lock or unlock tasks, that would let me solve many of our challenges with request forms being edited after submission or canceled tasks being awakened from the dead unexpectedly.
Advanced Info:
Being able to the lock for various editable parts of a task would really expand the functionality; for example;
- task editing locked
- task title locked
- task description locked
- task status changes locked
- task custom fields locked
- task dates locked
- task comments locked
- task assignment changes locked
API & Automations:
If the locking/unlocking could be set via API and automations many of our wrike challenges would be solved.
Examples:
- We use tasks to track permits, once a permit is expired (status changed to expired) I do not want the task status being changed back to active)
- We use tasks to track awarded contracts, once a contract is closed (status changed to signed) we don't want the task status being changed back to in-progress or started
- When tasks are IT support tickets, i want to prevent the task description (ticket scope) from being edited while IT is trying to resolve the original ticket.
- preventing request forms for internal users from being edited after submission, which has no current work around.
- locking task comments when a task is completed or canceled.
Related Posts:
The ability to block certain tasks or projects once they're completed would be very useful to my team. Managing roles with their permissions and moving projects to a read-only folder isn't a viable solution for us. I hope this request will be considered for future developments.
Thank you.
This feature would greatly reduce audit and manual controlling activities in the team, My suggestion is to tie it to the workflow, limiting the edit capabilities based on state of task to specified roles.
Hi Stefano Stella Admin, Miguel Magalhaes, thank you both for sharing your suggestions. I understand the current workarounds may not be ideal. We’ve shared your feedback with our product team and will post an update here if there are any changes in the coming months.
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I desperately need a way to lock the date. I have large scale multi-year projects with hard locked dates that can not be moved. But any single update to duration by any of the project managers who have legit needs to adjust moves that END date and it creates a near constant need to check the end date daily.
Thank you for the feedback, Tara Warburton. I have shared your feedback with our Product team for consideration. 👍🏽
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