Feature Update: Lock Data Synchronized From External Systems

Many organizations use Flowcase as their single source of truth for skills and experience data. As part of this, they create integrations that synchronize data from external systems such as certification platforms, learning management systems (LMS), and HR databases.

When integrating this data, it's often important that the externally sourced content is not altered, in order to maintain a compliant 1:1 data connection between systems.

We've made two important changes that ensure this data-integrity is preserved:

1. Icons that indicate which sections are synchronized from external systems

This ensures users are aware of which data is pulled in from an external system.

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2. Ability to lock down sections synchronized from external source systems.

If Admins want to strictly prohibit changes to data that is imported from external systems, they can lock these sections. They can achieve this by navigating to: Admin > Customize Workspace > Customize Fields.

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If a section has been locked, the user will be shown this message: