Add range protection #412
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…nxlsx; Add protectWorksheet function to enable worksheet-level protection (potentially password-protected) This patch loads the <sheetProtection> XML tag from the sheet's xml file, stores it in the corresponding field of the Worksheet and simply writes it out again on saveWorkbook. To modify the worksheet-level protection, the protectWorksheet function is provided. It can either replace the protection or remove it. It will not modify the flags of the existing worksheet protection.
…otectWorkbook function to set workbook protection
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Hi, Sorry to bother you. I noticed there is some work being done (or completed) on protecting the excel sheet. I'm specifically interested in the protectRange functionality. Is there a dev version I use? or better still, when is the release version expected? Thank you for your great work! Sorry if this information is located elsewhere. Kind regards, OIiver |
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This PR implements the
protectRange()function. It should be incorporated alongside #411. It protects an Excel range so that when a worksheet is protected withprotectWorksheet(), specific ranges are still editable with or without a password specific to that range.There are no checks that the
rangeis in a correct Excel format. If an incorrect format is supplied, upon opening the Excel workbook Excel will complain and ask if you want to remove the faulty XML. If you say yes, it will remove the protected range (in fact I think it removes all of them?).It is meaningful for overlapping ranges to be protected with multiple passwords. See the documentation Details section for more info.
I see this PR being useful when creating data entry templates with R. A data scientist could create a boxed off "holy grail" sheet / range where an analyst can enter data and then pass it back to the data scientist for further munging. The protection prevents the analyst from entering data in cells that could cause the data scientist issues.
CC @kainhofer