Can you remove user access to filter on a field, without removing access to that field itself?

[Alex Winkley]

We have a unique requirement from our customer where they want to filter down the options a user can choose from when filtering data without removing their access to those fields on the form. It's okay if these fields can't be viewed on the table. Is this requirement possible? My understanding is the only way to remove access to filter on a specific field is to remove read access to the field overall.

[James Chun]

Hi @Alex Winkley,

Can you elaborate on which field type and why this is needed?

If it's a drop down list, you can write a client script to remove/add options on a form.

Cheers

[Alex Winkley]

Possible poor wording on my part - it's not an issue with limiting the options of the field, I want to limit being able to select the field itself on the filter. This is to "protect" our non-power users from having access to filter on fields they don't quite understand but need access to from a system level. Think reference fields with complex fields that we don't want them to try to dot-walk to.