Making Custom Fields Non-editable

Article Number:020224

When users edit their profiles, the updated content is also applied to the user information in Kintone Users & System Administration.
If you want to restrict the users who can update the information in custom fields only to Kintone Users & System Administrators, you can configure the setting to forbid users to change the custom fields in their profiles.

  1. Click gear shaped administration menu icon in the header.

  2. Click Users & System Administration.
    Accessing Kintone Users & System Administration

  3. Click Departments & Users.

  4. Click Profile Settings.
    Screenshot: "Profile Settings" is highlighted

  5. Click Edit icon of the target field.

  6. Clear "Allow users to edit this field".
    Screenshot: "Allow users to edit this field" checkbox is cleared

  7. Click Save.