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Status on freezing the document in new gen.

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What is the status on freezing the document after filing in the new gen? This is absolutely critical for us.

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  • Mallory Earll

    Hi everyone, we will be starting development on this soon and plan to deliver mid-late q1. Thanks!

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  • Audra Hoffschneider

    Not sure what Workiva's status is, but I have found that changing permissions for all users for the project/document to "View' is helpful - then no one has permission to make any changes.

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  • Mallory Earll

    Hi, Keta Patel! My name is Mallory Earll and I'm the product manager here at Workiva. Audra is correct in that changing permissions is a great current workaround that exists However, my team and I are actively doing discovery to decide how we should implement this in Next Gen and are working to provide a better solution. Let me know if you would like to be included on discovery discussions - we are more than happy to loop you in! 

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  • Marci Hulsey

    As an owner of the document, I have been unable to change my permission to view only which still leaves the risk that I could accidentally make a change to the "filed" document.  Is there a way around that?

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  • Mike

    Hi Marci!

    I was about to close this post for comments and saw yours got stranded out here. I'm happy to help answer your question, however.

    Currently there's not any way to prevent an Owner from altering their permission below Owner until they choose a new Owner to the file. A Workspace Owner can also add/adjust permissions as needed too, even if they don't have access outright. It's possible you could set a group as owner and only have limited folks in that group, but you'd likely want at least one person to manage those permissions if you needed to.

    Hope that helps answer your question. Let me know if you have any follow-ups for me. I'll keep this post open for comments for the time being but will likely close it soon, but your posts or comments are always welcome.

    Thanks again and chat soon!

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  • Mary Ellen Hird

    Bumping this in hopes of an update on whether we can Freeze filed documents.

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  • Beth Milburn

    Does changing the permission to view only prevent people with XBRL access to not make changes since the XBRL permission feature is currently not working?

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