topic Re: Possible wish about locking properties in Project data & BIM

Possible wish about locking properties

Mats Knutsson — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:22:02 GMT

Hi,

Regarding expression properties we'd like them to be lockable in schedules. For example we create a property "Door swing" that gets the door swing from a simple expression. When this property is used in a schedule a "creative" user can later the value from the automatic to a custom and since Archicad doesn't have a way to higlight manually overridden values there is almost no way to discover this. Thus wee'd like a way to lock properties.

Disclaimer (we have a valid reason to use a property expression for this case instead of using the oriontation parameter directly in the schedule...it's just an example).

I'd like GS to chime in to hint if this an impossible...otherwise I'll create a wish ::.

/Mats

Re: Possible wish about locking properties

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:22:57 GMT

I don't think there is any way to lock any Property.

As for the wish, it is already on the Wishlist:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/Ability-to-Lock-Expression-Based-Properties/idi-p/571086

Re: Possible wish about locking properties

Mats Knutsson — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:28:16 GMT

Ah...of course...I upvoted...tried to upvote 100 votes but ony managed 1 haha