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Improve locking with re-lock and other locking options

  • January 16, 2021
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  • PedroS00
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Tom Venning

I spend a huge amount of time locking and unlocking when I want to edit one item deep in the board design. The big problem with capturing lots of elements by dragging with the mouse is that you capture all the sticky notes and other interactive elements which should stay un-locked. So I first need to move them out the way, unlock, edit, re-capture all the elements I want locked, then lock them again. It would be so easy if I could unlock, edit, re-lock the same elements. 

Other locking nice-to-haves would be

“lock everything except stickies”

“lock everything but allow text editing inside locked blocks”

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  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • March 3, 2021

Amen! A “lock everything except stickies” option would be a godsend for us...currently it takes many hours to prepare a board for other users by locking down every item on the board individually.


Kiron Bondale
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  • March 3, 2021

@Tom Venning & @Eve Binder -

when you do a select of multiple different object types, you do have the ability to filter and select just one type of object within all the ones selected. Those could then be locked. While it doesn’t let you multi-select different object types, it would still be faster than individual locking items.

I would agree that it’d be great if this functionality could be enhanced to allow you to pick multiple object types to filter in.

Kiron


  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • March 3, 2021

Wow thanks Kiron, not sure why I never spotted that before! It will definitely make locking down boards a lot faster. 


Tom Venning
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  • 9 replies
  • March 3, 2021

Many thanks Kiron … that is helpful … I’ll start playing with it and see what comes out! Thanks. Tom