I have a public spreadsheet and I want to restrict users from editing what others did write so they can only edit their own posts, is that possible?
For anonymous editors that is impossible but if you have users' e-mail addresses, there is a way to specify protected range or sheet for each user.
In Google sheets click Data -> Protected sheets and ranges. It opens a toolbar on the right side of the screen. There you can define desired range to be protected. Give that range a name and click "Set permissions". Now set editing permissions to "Restrict who can edit this range" and from the dropdown list select "Custom" and write editor's e-mail in the box below. Done!
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Google Sheets "EDITOR", (1 person) cannot edit any cells. Other EDITORs (2 people) can. Please help. Not sure where to go to be able to allow this one EDITOR to edit an individual cell. Two other persons have the same EDITOR status and ARE able to edit cells.
Have recent invitation the user to see if this would open up permission to edit the cells. It did not. Have looked at settings, but see nothing about individual permissions to be granted.
Have you checked if protected ranges are present in this sheet (Data/Protected sheets and ranges)? This is a separate setting to access permissions.
I'm self thought in data studio and am currently creating a database of all my companies customers. As a part of this database, I want our sales team to have access to all of the customers past and current information. This includes a unique link to a companies profile. We work off Google Sheets so I have a google sheets document with the customers information including the unique link. This would currently be fore 1,700 customers so I can't do them manually!
I want to make a nice button that would say "Customer profile" which would be created from this unique hyperlink. The only way I can figure out doing this is by using a one cell table and having the long hyperlink displayed. Is there a way I can use an image to create a unique button when the database is filtered? I.E if I filter the database to show company X's information a button will have their profile pulled from the sheet.
Additionally (a lesser question because it's more for ease instead of functionality), there is a form that our sales team can fill out during the call which I currently have embedded. Is there a way to embed a JotForm form through google sheets also? It means we would be able to pre-populate the form and the sales-person wouldn't have to waste time filling out a customer reference or company name etc.
Any help would be really appreciated! Please let me know if any more information is needed.
This is only an answer to your first question.
You can create a Calculated Field in your data source.
Here:
Let's say that you have "Company_Name" and "Website_URL" fields in your data source. Calculated Field will look like this:
HYPERLINK(Website_URL,Company_Name)
Then you name this field for example "Company_Website_Link" and add this to your work.
I've created form in google sheet, so that multiple users can add data, modify & delete.
However, it is not working properly when multiple users are working on it simultaneously.
For an example, two people are working on the sheet. User A and User B. If user A is typing something user B is also able to see and user B will be able to enter the detail, but it will change the details which are being entered by user A. Technically same sheet is opened for both the users and details keeps on changing what users are changing.
Ideally, if user A is entering some details user B should not be able to see it and form should be blank or unique for user B, so that both the data won't clash. I want it to be like the way google form is there wherein form will be blank when any user is opening it. (I have tried google form for my work, but as there are too many drop downs google form takes time to load and work gets slow that the reason I am trying to find the option in google sheet).
google sheet link
Above is the google sheet which you can open and check the form and coding. Also, please test it with a different id to test for multiple users.
Let me know if there is any workaround for this. Also, let me know if you need any other details.
Answer:
This just isn't possible. Sheets is meant to be a collaborative tool; what's edited by one person will always show up for others. You need to use a different tool, for example like a Google form for data entry, but having data not being edited in other open versions is just not workaroundable.
I have a list of flags classified in three filters (drop-down lists). The problem is that the drop-down list does not work in reading mode, only in editor mode. I just wanted people to see the lists and be able to interact. Is it possible to use this option in some way without having to be in editor mode?
Editor mode
https://imgur.com/keuA6mq
Reading mode (link shared)
https://imgur.com/THz0yQk
The implementation you are looking for is not possible using view only (Read only) permission on Google Sheets due to the fact that when someone makes changes to the selected cell via the dropdown menu, this will count as an "Edit".
A workaround I could suggest is to set the view to Edit and protect all cells on the sheet with the exception of the cells with dropdown list (Data validation) and set the edit permission access to only yourself. Here's more information on how to protect an entire sheet or range/s of cells:
Protect, hide, and edit sheets
I have this same problem and I'm growing frustrated. How in the world such simple blunder could escape the creators of Google Sheets? Obviously, if someone creates a spreadsheet with drop-downs in a range of cells, and said spreadsheet is to be shared with other users who will be granted limited edit permissions for certain parts of the spreadsheet, it is more than obvious that the creator of the spreadsheet wants his or her users to see and make use of the drop-downs, BUT also wants to make sure that nobody will accidentally delete the data validation contained in the cells (in other words, the drop-down itself). This is so obvious. I don't understand why Google Sheets hasn't yet come up with an extra permission (or a special 'edit' permission) where users can see and interact with a drop-down while in edit, but without the ability of deleting or accidentally changing the cell validation in any way. It would be like, you see it and you can interact, but you can't delete it or change the validation. Simple and nothing but common sense. Come on Google Sheets... let's get to it, please. It shouldn't be too hard to enable such partial edit permissions.
I have been working on Selective Content Migration using "SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard" from CodePlex for a particular SPList.
The migrated data is displayed in a Custom List in SP2007, in which 2 fields Preparers & Approvers (columns) are of "People & Group" data type. These two columns displays the "Name (with Presence)" of People & Group type and I am able to click the user names to open the user details for all active AD users.
How ever, some of the users are disabled in Active Directory and we are unable to populate them in SharePoint. Due to which, they are not visible in the mentioned columns. Is there a way to restrict SharePoint from resolving the inactive / disabled AD users and continue to display them in the Preparers & Approvers column?
Also what is the option to display their Name (like Sriram Bala) in a seperate column for those who are inactive in AD? Meaning, those who are disabled in AD, their name without hyper link alone should be displayed in another column say Preparer Name or something like that. I tried to use Single Line Text datatype to get the People & Group value, but it didn't work.
Please suggest the possible option to achieve this.
Thanks,
Sriram
In SharePoint Central Admin (for 2007 select the appropriate SSP), you can fine tune the LDAP connection to omit different user values from the AD Sync process.
Look to add something along the lines of:
userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=0
to your LDAP filter.