Locking / Restrictions

Easil’s Brand Restrictions bring a new level of control to your entire team from micro businesses to large, multiple-team corporations. Create and control how member of your team edit and share your custom team designs – element by element. Once set, Brand Restrictions define which layers, elements, fonts, colors and images can be edited – in seconds. All you need to do is toggle the padlock icon on or off for each item. You will need to have a 'Designer' permission applied to your role in order to be able to control the restrictions.

To access locking functionality, click the Lock icon in the sidebar. There are two tabs/sections which are described below.

A locked item is signified by a locked icon, and shows that that editing option will not be available by team Members who do not have 'Designer' role applied.

An unlocked item is shown with an unlocked icon. This results in any user being able to freely apply that option to the template.

Applying Restrictions to your Designs

Restrictions are applied to elements in your design, as well as entire document restrictions. Below we explain the differences between each. You will notice that as you apply restrictions to your document, they will immediately appear for you within your working document as well, with options being removed from the Actionbar, or, greyed out from the sidebar, instantly providing a block to that type of editing.

Document Restrictions

When there are no design elements selected, the 'Document' tab will be the active tab. This section allows you to control restrictions that apply to the entire design.

Clicking the Select/unselect all option will toggle on/off all the options.

Brand Colors only: When this option is locked, a document will only be permitted to use colors from the Brand Kit color tab.

Background color: When locked the background color of the document is unable to be updated.

Text: When locked, new text boxes will not be able to be added to the design. This applies to both your own uploaded fonts, and also Brand fonts.

Arrange Layers: When locked the order of design elements (layers) is unable to be changed.

Photo from Library: When locked, images from the library will not be able to be added to the design.

Graphic from Library: When locked, graphics from the library will not be able to be added to the design.

Resize & Copy: When locked, the design will not be able to be resized into a new design or copied into a new design.

Custom colors: When locked, no new colors can be introduced into the design. The only colors available will be ones that are already implemented in the design.

Assets Templates: When locked, templates assets will not be able to be accessed or added to the design.

Assets Favorites: When locked, favorited assets will not be able to be accessed or added to the design

Save to Favorites: When locked, the user will not be able to add any elements from the Template to their Favorites tab.

Layouts: When locked, replacing the current page's design or adding a new design as a new page will be disabled.

New Page: When locked, adding a new page to the design is disabled.

Element (Text, Graphics, Images)

With the lock tab active in the sidebar, selecting an individual element will activate that elements lock settings. Any changes you make to an individual items lock settings only apply to the currently selected item.

Clicking the Select/unselect all option will toggle on/off all the options.

Removable: When locked, the element will be unable to be deleted from the design.

Visibility: When locked, the element will be unable to be hidden from visibility via the layers tab.

Opacity: When locked, the element will be unable to have its opacity settings changed.

Angle: When locked, the element will be unable to be rotated or have its angle changed.

Duplicate: When locked, the element will be unable to be duplicated, copied or cloned.

Text Edit (Text Box only): When locked, the text in the text box will be unable to be edited/changed.

Position (Text Box only): When locked, the position of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Color (Text Box & Graphic only): When locked, the color of the element will be unable to be changed.

Font Family (Text Box only): When locked, the font of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Font Size (Text Box only): When locked, the font size of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Text Decoration (Text Box only): When locked, the bold, italic and underline styling of the text in the text box will be unable to be changed.

Text Shadow (Text Box only): When locked, the text shadow settings of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Text Mask (Text Box only): When locked, the text masking features of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Letter Spacing (Text Box only): When locked, the letter spacing settings of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Line Height (Text Box only): When locked, the line height settings of the text box will be unable to be changed.

Size And Position: When locked, the element will not be able to be resized, stretched or repositioned.

Filters (Image only): When locked, filters will not be able to be changed on any images within this element.

Flipping: When locked the element will be unable to be flipped.

Cropping (Image only): When locked, the image (or images within this element) will be unable to be cropped.

Image Replace (Image only): When locked, the image (or images within this element) will be unable to be changed/replaced.

Set As Background (Image only): When locked, the image will be unable to be used as a background image.

Text Boundary (Text only): When locked, any text input into the box is limited to the text box size set by the designer. By default, this option locks all the common brand requirements of Position, Font Family, Font Size, Letter Spacing, Line Height, and Text Align with one click, but can also have those options manually toggled off.