Lock a field in material master from change

[knottypine2]

Hi all,

I have a requirement to protect the field MARC-SERNP 'Serial number profile', found within the material master data 'Sales General/Plant' and 'Plant data / stor.2' tabs, from being changed by all but two employees.

I cannot decide how to best approach this - I can see how I could restrict change access to the material master data views entirely through authorisation settings, but I can't see how to take it to the next level to a specific field. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions please?

Kind regards
Andy

[Al.]

Hi,

A couple of options are:

1. Create a tx variant with that field as display only. Assign variant to a custom tx and distribute (cons are that most users use the custom tx).
2. Work with a developer to use the enhancement framework to restrict that field to display only unless users have additional auth (e.g. new auth object or reuse existing).

[knottypine2]

Hi Al.
Thanks for your suggestions - I went for option 1, which works fine