Want to be able to lock a period but still edit orders for the period

Question

Version: (Please provide the current version)
2007A PL 41
Description of requirements: (Please provide a detailed description)
Customers require the ability to be able to go into open sales orders or purchase orders and make changes even though those orders are in a prior period that is locked or in closing as they were able to do in 2005.
Business needs: (Please describe the impact on your business, if the functionality is not realized)
By leaving a period unlocked or unlocked except for Sales, users are not prevented from accidently or intentionally being allowed to post journal entries or possibly documents to a period that would have been closed if it did not prevent the user from going back to change old sales orders.
Examples: (Please describe a typical example, how the functionality should work.)
The user should be allowed to lock or close a prior period and still be allowed to go back into sales orders or purchase orders from that period and make changes if they are still open.
__Current Workaround:__ (Please describe the workarounds you are using at the moment)
Leave the period unlocked which creates a risk of entries being done to periods which should be closed.
Proposed solution: (Please suggest how the new functionality should work)
Please see example above.

Answer 1

I don't understand you.
I have a similar situation and I use views to restrict access depends on the users. I filter columns, the usersnever see the table (all columns) only the columns defined in the view
HTH