Lock Text Box

[RG]

Is there a way to lock text boxes in place but leave the text box editable?

I am doing an offset text behind the normal text so it will show better on a pattern, and I want to ensure that if the customer goes into the editor, they can't move the text boxes.

[Barbara · Accepted solution]

I don't believe the boxes can be locked in place. You can set it up so two boxes have identical text where, if the text is edited in one, the text in the other changes to match. It's probably as close as you can get to what you want. Maybe someone will prove me wrong, however.

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[RG]

Thanks!  I have done lots of research, and I think you are correct.

[ColsCreations]

I've used this "trick" on numerous products as sort of a poor man's drop shadow effect to get better contrast between text & background pattern. You can absolutely lock these template text layers so the customer can't mess things up by moving them and still have the template text editable on the product page. (I just published a test to be sure and the locked template text layers functioned as normal on the product page, signed-in or not.) If you lock them though the customer can't change the font or color or size etc ... they can only edit the actual text via the template on the product page. That's why I've never published anything with them locked before. But it is doable.

[RG]

Thanks!

[Barbara]

@ColsCreations  Even if it's unlikely to be a good solution in most cases, it's nevertheless something we can keep in our back pocket for that rare occasion, so thanks for investigating and telling us about it.

[CrazyMermaid]

If you lock layers and the customer tries to transfer the design to another product, the locked layers don't transfer to the new product. So this could decrease a product's sales. 

[ColsCreations]

I just found a couple of my products with image layers I locked for some reason and even signed-out as a guest, when I picked something from the "transfer this design" scroll below the product, all the layers transferred as usual. But when you go into the design tool, those transferred locked layers are still locked. So if they want to adjust the size/positioning to better fit the product they transferred too, they can't. But the locked layers did transfer.

[CrazyMermaid]

I stand corrected. Perhaps I was trying to copy them from product to product and they didn't copy. Anyways locking layers has had unintended consequences, if only for my work flow!

[Obriennojunk]

How do I UNlock a text box?  I didn’t intend to lock it and not sure how that happened.