Lock Up Conditional Field Release For Free

The only way to do this is with VisualForce. You will have to have code in your controller that determines if the field is an outputfield (read only) or an inputfield (read / write). Then you'll need to call a reRender on the fields on change the dropdown. This blog post may give you some help for this.

How to make field non-editable in Salesforce? Go to the page layout. Click the Field Properties in the page layout. Make it Read-Only.

A simple Flow will allow you to lock a record, or add your custom logic to lock the record only after it has gone through a custom approval. NOTE: Unlike the Unlock Record Apex Action, any user who has edit rights on a record will be able to lock the record.

3 Answer(s) Go to the object's field page under Setup. Click on the view link for the field. Click the Set Field-Level Security button. Change the field to read-only for the appropriate profiles (You would need to change to appropriate profile to test)

Go to Setup ?> Process Automation Settings ?> Enable ?Enable record locking and unlocking in Apex? checkbox.

Setup ---> Customize ---> Objects ---> Page Layouts ---> Edit the page layout ---> Select the field you want to make read-only ---> Click on 'Properties' of the field(an icon to the right end of field) ---> Here you will get a checkbox to make the field read only.

Lock/Unlock Record Using Apex In Salesforce Step 1: Enable record locking and unlocking in Apex. Go to setup. Search for Process Automation setting. ... Step 2: Now you can use apex lock() and unlock() in your custom codes. Example: