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Prevent Accidental Overwrite of Function Columns with Locking or Confirmation Dialog

Open wiktorpyk opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

Describe the problem to be solved

Our employees frequently overwrite formula columns by accidentally typing data into them. This replaces the entire column's formula with a static value.

Proposed Solutions:

  1. Add an option to "lock" formula columns.

  2. Trigger a warning popup when a user attempts to edit a cell in a formula column directly (not via the sidebar).

If there already is a solution to this problem, please let me know.

Describe the solution you would like

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wiktorpyk avatar May 13 '25 12:05 wiktorpyk

Something like this would be super helpful.

DavidFabijan avatar Jun 01 '25 05:06 DavidFabijan

I would recommend extending the lock / read-only feature to all data cells in addition to formulas (perhaps a system-wide toggle) to prevent accidental deletions / unintended edits when filtering / read-only interactions.

tgolub1 avatar Sep 18 '25 14:09 tgolub1