How To Group And Ungroup Rows and Columns In Protected Worksheet?

formidable

Someone might need this, I think I figured out how to make this work.

First, your code needs to be written in "ThisWorkbook" under Microsoft Excel Objects, as @peachyclean suggests.
Second, take the code that @Sravanthi wrote, and paste to the above mentioned location.

Sub Workbook_Open()
'Update 20140603
Dim xWs As Worksheet
Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet
Dim xPws As String
xPws = "rfc" ''Application.InputBox("Password:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)
xWs.Protect Password:=xPws, Userinterfaceonly:=True
xWs.EnableOutlining = True
End Sub

The thing is that you need to be on the sheet which you want to protect but allowing using grouping, and save the workbook and close, without protecting. Now if you open it, the macro starts automatically, it will make the sheet protected with the password "rfc". Now you can use the grouping, the sheet is protected.

For my solution, I've modified the password applied, so you can rewrite any password HERE:
xPws = "WRITEANYPASSWORDHERE" ''Application.InputBox("Password:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)

Furthermore, I didn't want the to-be-protected sheet active when opening the file, therefore I've modified this part:
Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet ->
Set xWs = Application.Worksheets("WRITEANYSHEET'SNAMEHERE")

Now it works like charm, sheet named 'WRITEANYSHEET'SNAMEHERE' is protected but the grouping applicable. On the long run, I think the problem will be that if I want to modify this file and keep the solution, I need to unprotect this sheet to make it work on the next opening. I guess you can write another macro to automatically unprotect when closing :)


I hope it helped.

do you have visuals for the VBA Code discussed 6 days ago to peachyclean about ThisWorkbook under Microsoft Objects instead of a new module. The functionality is lost when I go back into my workbook

To fix the issue of this not working in your file after you've closed it and opened it again, you have to paste the VBA code in "ThisWorkbook" under Microsoft Excel Objects instead of a new module. This will then automatically run the macro every time the file is opened.