Protection

There may be some slots in your PipeDream document which you do not want to be altered either deliberately or accidentally. For example, you may have set up a table for somebody else to update. You want to be sure that the permanent information is not altered. You can protect either individual slots or blocks of slots using the Set Protection command:

Menu Command Ctrl-sequence Key
Blocks Set protection BPS

If you have marked a block of slots, all slots in the block except blank slots will be protected. Otherwise the current slot will be protected.

The protected slot or slots can be displayed with a different background colour, so that you can easily see which slots are protected. You can specify the colour in the Colours dialogue box.

To remove protection, give the Clear Protection command:

Menu Command Ctrl-sequence Key
Blocks Clear protection BPC

Protection will be removed from the marked block of slots, if there is one, or from the slot containing the caret.

To remove all protection from a document, mark the whole document by clicking Select in the top left-hand corner of the window before giving the Clear Protection command