Protected columns

I work between email and MDC a lot, and I am constantly copy-pasting crucial info from MDC into email searches, reports, etc. Sadly, in the process of copy-pasting I and other team members have occasionally deleted or copied over key information.

I would like the option to “protect” a column. I THOUGHT that’s what your “lock column” was for, but it doesn’t work, because it only locks the column to EXTERNAL users, not the owner himself. I think it would be useful to protect certain very crucial columns against MY OWN accidental edits. And ONLY when I actually want to make changes, THEN I can “unprotect” it and make those changes.

A function like this would admittedly be inconvenient to use on most of the columns, since you often need to punch in quick updates. But I feel it would be very useful situations where the column info is both: 1) STATIC, i.e. it NEEDS to remain the same and CANNOT be changed or else your whole system goes out of whack; and 2) FREQUENTLY ACCESSED, e.g. customer name, ID number, sale ID number, etc.

Hope this makes sense!