Locking enterprise fields

[BTOjohn]

Dear All,

I want to create an enterprise field that contains "Baseline Work", which I
will then display instead of the actual column Baseline Work. The reason for
this is that I have had one or two issues with people trying to change data
in baseline work, and messing things up. I accept this is a training issue,
but I thought this could be an easy work-around. In order for it work,
however, I need to be able to lock that column so that it cannot be edited.
Is there a way of doing this?

Many thanks,

John

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi John,
If you are using Project Server 2003, in the Server Configuration page of
PWA, you can deny saving baselines on the Global permissions for Project
users.
Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret

 

[BTOjohn]

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for replying. I do not want to deny PMs the possibility of saving a
baseline, quite the contrary. However, I do want to stop them editing the
information in MSP when there is a column showing Baseline Work. Hence my
desire to swap a column containing "Baseline Work" with an Enterprise field
for which the formula is "Baseline Work", but then I hoped that there is an
option which will prohibit editing of that field.

I hope this makes more sense.

Cheers,

John

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

John:

The good news is that 2007 supports field-level security. The bad news is
that 2003 does not. If you copy this information into a field that you don't
display anywhere, perhaps your users will leave it alone?

 

[BTOjohn]

Thank you Gary, yet again, for your expert advice. We shall look forward to
2007 then =)

John