ECS Restricted Fields Configuration in ECS(3.3)

Owned by Jenni Wallin
Oct 02, 2023
2 min read

The purpose of the restricted fields configuration is to make it possible to mark certain fields as not editable in ECS Inspector. Doing this will make those fields as read only. For instance, you want to guard some fields in the UDRs in ECS from being edited to avoid losing traceability.

The configuration is available for all users having access to ECS Inspector. However only users belonging to the administrator group are allowed to change the configuration. For users belonging in other groups other than the administrator group the configuration is available in read only mode.

Restrictions can be set on any UDR type as well as within sub-UDRs. The restrictions are applied recursively so if you have restrictions on a UDR field of a certain type, all fields below this will be blocked from editing as well.

The restrictions defined in this configuration are valid only in ECS. It is still possible to modify these UDRs outside of the ECS, unless they have been explicitly defined as read only in Ultra definition.

It is possible to import and export the restricted fields configuration if needed using the System Importer or the System Exporter tool. To locate the configuration in the System Importer or Exporter tools, you can find it located in the configuration tree under System->ECS->RestrictedFields.

Note!

The access rights described above applies also for import and export of configuration. This means that any user can export restricted fields configuration as long as they have ECS Inspector access. However, only members of the administrator group may import the configuration.


Note!

Only users belonging to the administrator group are allowed to configure restricted fields. However, all users can view the configured restrictions.


To configure restricted fields:


  1. Click on the  Add button beneath the  Restricted UDR Types section.

  2. Select the UDR Type for which you want to restrict fields from being edited and click on the Apply button.
    The UDR type is added in the Restricted UDR Types  section.

  3. Repeat the previous step for all the UDR Types you want to add, and then click on the  OK button to close the dialog.

  4.  Select one of the UDR Types that you have added and click on the Add button beneath the  Restricted Fields section.
    The UDR Internal Format Browser opens.

  5.  Select a field you want to restrict from being edited in the UDR and click on the  Apply button.
    The UDR type is added in the  Restricted Fields section.

  6.  Repeat the previous step for all the fields you want to restrict from being edited, and then click on the  OK button to close the dialog.

  7.  When you are finished, click on the  Save  button in the  ECS Restricted Fields dialog to save your settings.
    The configured fields will now be blocked from editing in the ECS Inspector.