Lock Edit Button - Basic Feature Suggestion

[Mordechai_Pollo]

In many other systems you have an "Edit" button. Until you click the "edit" button, the data is read only. Adding this basic feature would solve A LOT of problems using Airtable. Each and every grid (and maybe other views) should have the now famous Airtable slide switch: Locked or Unlocked. (A nice touch would be a green border around the entire page for unlocked, red for locked.) This would allowing sorting, grouping, filtering etc. and working with the data w/o accidentally changing  the data, something that has happened to us more than once. 

[ScottWorld]

@Mordechai_Pollo 

You are correct that this is not a built-in feature of Airtable.

However, the good news is that there are 2 pretty good workarounds for this issue, both of them involving Airtable's interfaces.

The first workaround requires a Business or Enterprise plan, but the second workaround can work on any plan.

@Kamille_Parks demonstrates both of these techniques on this Airtable podcast episode.

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