Revenue projections that product managers should not adjust, ideas that are exciting but contingent on specific dependencies: custom layouts highlight critical information through fields and tabs — but sometimes you do not want your team to update that information.
Read-only fields block anyone from updating the field through a record's drawer or details view, so that users in your Aha! Ideas account have the proper context but cannot accidentally adjust fields that need to stay static.
Read-only fields are not locked fields, however. They can still be updated through several pathways: the Aha! API, through an integration, through bulk edits in list reports, and for Aha! Roadmaps customers, through clicking and dragging records in Gantt charts and roadmaps. This is often the key to read-only fields' true value: the right people can update them, and everyone can benefit from their information.
To mark a field as read-only, click the More options button in a record's View layout, and select Read-only. Once you Save your layout, the field you marked read-only will be immediately uneditable through the record's detail or drawer view.