I could only find one other topic similar to this and it was closed and locked so I could not vote or respond.
I have situations where I want users to have access to all items on a board but I want to limit the columns they can see AND I want to limit the users who can edit that particular column… For example, I want my senior leaders to see all of our investment partners (column) but that column should only be editable by our investments team. Lower level leaders should not see or be able to edit that column.
Same is true for views. I would like to have the ability to lock views & make views visible to only certain individuals.
Hey Cole, I think our column permissions are what you’re looking for! Column permissions are available on our Pro Plan and above. You can find more information via the embedded link. Let me know if you have any questions
You’re correct, that would work perfectly IF you could use both the “View” function & the “Edit” function on the same column at the same time but the system only allows you to use one or the other. The request is to allow us to use both at the same time so that I can limit who can see it AND of the people who can see it who can edit it.
@chansen I have the same use case I’m surprised that Monday.com doesn’t have something so simple. ACL are important in all things needing separation of duty. I’m surprised that there aren’t any other people needing this as well.
So in practice, all you’d need to do is just put two tabs at the top for: viewing and editing. Then users could switch between those two tabs and control the permissions for individual members/guests very easily.
I’m also requesting support for the “people” column field to be an option in this menu, because right now you can only pick between teams and individual users, which is very tedious and not scalable. Using the “people” column field would allow a specific category of person (whoever is assigned in the column of the “people variable”) to be subject to the permissions in that column.
So in my situation, the actual use-case is that I have separate columns for different roles that each item needs: video editor, creator, project manager, and creative strategist. If this permissions menu could dynamically read the other column titles and dynamically call whichever person belongs to each column by it’s column name (as long as it’s a “people” column), then all we would need to do is pick the corresponding “people” column from the menu, and monday could set the view & edit permissions separately in the target column (the one we’re setting the permissions in). This makes it much easier to assign permissions to dymanic “roles” that we use columns to assign/manage.
I know this is an extra step, but the scope is pretty small since this would only need support for the people type column, since you can only actually assign people in terms of column values.
If you could also include support for “all members”, “all guests”, and “all viewers” as selectable options that appear in search, then that would be a really juicy bonus.
But anyway, just doing those first two things would solve almost all column permission needs in almost all use-cases at the same time at scale for almost all users. Just saying, this would be the most scalable way to do it imo.
