# Make Fields Read-Only

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/make-fields-read-only/1834>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/make-fields-read-only/1834 "2017-05-01T21:54:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![ESconnor](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/esconnor/32/84489_2.png) [@ESconnor](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ESconnor)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/make-fields-read-only/1834/1 "2017-05-01T21:54:06Z")

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Our online platform will be feeding data back to the Hubspot CRM via the API to populate certain custom fields. It would be ideal if we could mark these fields as ‘read-only’ so that they cannot be modified using the Hubspot UI.

Another possible solution to this is intorducing permissions by field, which would allow us to restrict the editing of certain fields to admins only (who know not to edit certain fields).

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