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The account data approvals feature has been released which should address this requirement. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/envizi-esg-suite?topic=managing-approving-account-data
Please reach out to our support team if you have any questions on the new feature. We welcome feedback and suggestions for further improvement via the ideas portal.
Hi @Guest - it depends what the purpose is of the data locking.
The account data approvals feature (due for release in a couple of weeks) will allow already created account records to be locked by changing the approval status of the record. This is good for preventing records from being changed, but it doesn't prevent new records from being added. However even if new records are added, these can always be filtered out by excluding unapproved data in reports.
The data locking epic in discovery is more generic with the intent of allowing a lockdown date to be set at an account, location or group level. The main difference being this would prevent new records from being entered. We may also use this opportunity to expand the scope of the locking to cover other entities that can impact reporting, like tagging or factors.
If the main goal for a client is to lock already entered account records, then the account data approvals feature may be sufficient.
This idea has been linked to an epic in discovery around updating our lockdown function for activity data and emissions. The requirements will also be partially addressed by the account data approvals feature planned for Q2 2025.
Thank you for raising this idea. The ability to implement more granular levels of record locking compared to the organization wide record lock date is being actively investigated. We will update this idea once the discovery work has been completed and the feature has been added to our roadmap.