At the moment, the permissions that the admin is allowed to set is too simple. For example, One one board, I have a few groups. In the column, I would like my employee’s to be able to make edits to one column in a specific group, But in the other group, I don’t want to give them access to edit. At the moment, When you lock one column, it locks the column on all the groups. IF we can explain on this and be more specific on what we want to lock. We would be able to create a more effective platform.
I have a public workflow board and I have a group called “Milestone” which is a summary of specific tasks throughout the board.
There are a lot of automations and dependencies set up in the Milestone group which I do not want anyone being able to edit, comment, or change the status of this specific group only.
Is there a workaround or setting to now allow anyone to edit just this one group?
I am interested to know how to lock columns. I have sensitive data that I don’t want some staff to be able to change, but at the same time in another column I need them to mark a column as completed.
Any instructions would be greatly appreciated, thank you
I have several groups that has to input activities on a portfolio. 80% of the fields are same ones for everybody and 20% are customized for a specific group.
The cleanest option is to allow access to everyone to the standard fields and restrict the view of the customized ones. The problem is that I have more than 300 users…not possible to manage the view access individually. It’d be great to manage the column view restrictions by group.
Posting this reply again once more 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 
Right now the permissions settings menu looks like this…
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.