Column Permission restriction - edit and/or view

Feature requests
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You can now restrict column permission to view, or edit. But I need to be able to restrict view to some persons, and to restrict edit to others… Now we can only choose between the two. I hope this is a minor developer task, but big pain point :slight_smile:

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Hi Monday community… any feedback on this??? Is this on a roadmap?

I could really use this functionality as well!

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Development Workflow Requirements:

  • Need to control Edit and View access restrictions separately
  • Want to be able to indicate a person or team and most importantly indicate a person column from within that same board to control that access. If/when we break the access, the board should default to the most restrictive, i.e. to board owner(s) only and notify us in the same fashion as when we break a board automation by removing a column.

Somewhat recent and related posts I found searching, in case helpful:

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Yes please

This feature would be super helpful for us as well, as we are running into some pretty major concerns with not being able to restrict viewing and editing separately for specific team members.

We have a board with about 40 columns per item, and need to be able to apply unique restrictions to specific team members, depending on their job position.

I hope this gets taken into serious consideration by the product team, as it would be great and very impactful improvement.

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Just updated to Pro, in large part for column permissions – I just cannot believe that edit and view cannot be defined separately. I initially thought that I was doing something wrong!

We need multiple columns to be visible only to a team, yet editable by nobody. Why can’t I do this? Ugh.

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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.

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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 :pray:

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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.

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Yes, would love to have this feature added. I also need for our team.

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Any update on this?

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Hello,

I definitely need this option! We can already restrict edit permission to a column and also restrict the viewing permissions, but not both at the same time :frowning: Why? Even Monday bot told me it was possible. It seems this can be a quick upgrade for Monday since the functionality is already there and it just a matter to let both restrictions be in place for the same column

Any updates on this?

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@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.

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Posting this reply again for visibility…

Heads up that this feature request is still a really big need for us!!! I recommend building out the permissions menu like this :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Right now the permissions settings menu looks like this…

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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.

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Heads up that this feature request is still a really big need for us!!! I recommend building out the permissions menu like this :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Right now the permissions settings menu looks like this…

image
image338×309 10.3 KB

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.

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Heads up that this feature request is still a really big need for us!!! I recommend building out the permissions menu like this :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Right now the permissions settings menu looks like this…

image
image338×309 10.3 KB

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.

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Sugiero que se puedan restringir permisos por columna y al mismo tiempo permiso de visualización , ejemplo que solo 5 personas puedan ver la columna pero que solo 2 puedan editar.

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Hi Monica! Thank you for submitting your feature request in 2023. To ensure that votes for feature requests are accurately counted, I merged your request with this one here. Your request had 5 votes, which have bumped up this request to 35 votes! You can stay tuned for updates from the Product team here. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hey Cole! Thanks for submitting your feature request in 2023! To ensure that votes are accurately counted, I have merged your request with this one here. Your request had 3 votes, which has bumped this one to 37 votes! All updates for this request from the Product team will be posted in this thread. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hola Eduardo! :waving_hand: ¡Bienvenido a la comunidad monday.com! Gracias por enviar su solicitud de función. Para garantizar que los votos se cuenten con precisión para las solicitudes de funciones, he fusionado su envío con este aquí.

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