Lock Description Field

[heather]

Good Evening,

I am interested in locking the description field once a story or task transitions out of To Do status. 

From what I see in the workflow properties, locking out fields by status appears to be all or nothing.

Am I wrong? Is there a way to lock only the description field when a story transitions to In Progress for example? 

[Brant Schroeder]

Edit restrictions are all or nothing - you can block it by status and even by group (e.g. when "in progress" only developers can edit, rest of the time, users can too), but not by field

If however, you remove the field you want to protect from the Edit screen, and put it on transition screens, you can create transitions that are locked down and let only certain users edit the field by using them.