Restrict Editing of Certain Properties and View history of User Edits

Currently if a user has access to edit one contact’s property, they have access to edit all contact properties.

We have the ability to restrict a user from creating or deleting properties but it would be incredibly helpful to restrict the editing of certian properties.

We have employees who need access to edit basic property fields on a contact’s profile (name, phone number…etc) however there are other properties we don’t want them to touch which may affect conversions, sales, or customer relations - currently we cannot restrict this.

What’s worse is there’s no means of checking (other than one by one contact by contact). It would be helpful if we could run a report that says Show me every time USER 1 edited the PHONE NUMBER property on all contacts system wide.

  1. Restrict certain users from editing certain property fields on a contact’s profile
  2. View a history of when users edit certain contact properties.

Hello

You are right, I do agree that we need to restrict access to certain contact properties for the users so that the confidential information regarding any contact will be kept more secure.

Also, if anyone edited any property, the previous property value and the person who edited to be saved as log for future reference.

Agree 100%. Whilst our whole team needs access to view the information on each contact and update most of it, we only want a few senior account holders to have the ability to change certain properties. This could be done by having an ‘Edit permissions’ field on the property settings, where you can select which teams or individuals have ‘edit access’ to that property.

Definitely agree. We need to be able to limit who has access to editing certain fields.

Our team would benefit from having this feature enabled to pick and choose which properties are edit enabled. I agree with the suggestions to have “edit permissions.”

We also need this urgently.

An important example is around managing incentives.

We have specific fields relating to commission % that the sales manager needs to set. We currently have no way to track if a salesperson changes this.

Thanks

YES! This is a critical feature in my opinion. We have many fields that are imported from a database and not being able to restrict those, muddies our data. Having this ability would be a surefire way to keep our database input clean within hubspot and would be a major help in this initiative!

We have entire teams of people we would like not to be able to edit certain fields…honestly surprised this isn’t a thing yet.

Could not agree more and is definitely missing from Hubspot.

This would mean that our superadmins could determine which users have access to what - especially if a custom filed is tied to a worklfow!

Love the request, this is a very powerful feature that Salesforce offers, and that I desperately miss with hubspot

I would definitely need that feature implemented. We are evaluating other CRM at the moment and this missing feature might make us buy and use Salesforce instead. We want to be able to consolidate deals managed by our resellers in a single pipeline and would need a restricted property to grant them deals and right to work on these deals. For that, we would need such a feature.

We really need the ability to set view and edit permissions on a per-property basis.

  • Hide properties at an everyone/team/owner level or for specific users/teams
  • Make properties read only at an everyone/team/owner level or for specific users/teams

Examples:

  • Personal details/sensitive about a customer or account info only available to record owner
  • Special deals or discounts, commission overrides, etc. only available to sales management
  • Data synced one-way from ERP set as read-only so no one accidentally tries to change it and expects it to sync back

Completely agree. This would really help us out.

Example:

We currently automatically set (through a workflow) a contact account status, based on the company account status. The company status is the only one that should be editable the contact status should be read-only.

We really need this for approval processes along our pipeline. Currently anyone can ‘approve’ a deal as it moves through and this typically triggers workflows that are then difficult to reverse.

Agree - we need this functionality!

100% Agree. I need this

Absoultely needed. This has been a request of many users for awhile now. Is there an update as to when this ability will be created?? I’ve created custom properties to populat via workflow to assign commissions. But now the contact owners can change this manually which we don’t want!

We need this as well

Agreed! A junior sales rep should be able to edit the phone number or the address field of a company anytime, but not to overwrite sensitive data like the commission he is going to get for that specific lead. That should be a “read-only”-field!

This is a critical feature for HubSpot to offer if they want to be an Enterprise solution. UPVOTE!