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My team uses a shared Dropbox, and we'd like to be able to collaborate on a google sheet in real-time. I made a google sheet following the instructions here: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/third-party/create-google-docs
And it works, mostly - except, a few features are missing that are very important, particularly, the ability to protect/lock previous entries. This is essential to ensure we keep accurate records that are not mistakenly over-written over time.
Anyone else have a similar issue or know of a solution?
Walter
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Hi Walter,
Thanks for the link, but unfortunately that is not going to be a workable solution for us - we need data entered at the completion of a study to be immutable, and only allow new rows to be entered. Chasing previous versions will cause problems if one day, someone is entering new data but accidentally also deletes or changes previous data. Restoring to the old version will preserve the old data but lose the new data. The option to protect sheets/ranges is available by default in Google Sheets normally, but for some reason, is lost when integrated with Dropbox.
Jay
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