Enable/Disable Custom/Lookup Fields

[Andrew Jacks]

We have a client that would like ability to disable and later re-enable
custom fields. When they are disabled users will be unable to enter/select
them.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be achived.

Thanks

 

[Kit]

You could create an onPublishing event handler and simply throw away a user's
changes to certain fields.

This would be pretty bad for usability though since the user would have no
idea their changes are being thrown away.

 

[Andrew Jacks]

Kit,

Thanks for that. It looks like there is no way of achiving the functionality
in a way that the users will accept.

 

[Rod Gill]

With Project Server custom fields, just remove them from all Views. No way
to hide Project standard custom fields other than remove from Tables but an
educated user can still easily re-insert them.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com