{"id":11801,"date":"2023-01-24T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.242.183.235.nip.io\/wpadmin2\/docs\/taking-submissions\/managing-your-submissions\/locking-entries-once-they-are-submitted\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:29:01","slug":"locking-entries-once-they-are-submitted","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/managing-your-submissions\/locking-entries-once-they-are-submitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Locking entries once they are submitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(173,111,174) 100%)\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can also manually lock and unlock entries<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/docs\/taking-submissions\/managing-your-submissions\/locking-unlocking-entries\/\">This file<\/a> will show you how<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When running your opportunity, you can make it so that all entries are not editable once they have been submitted. This is particularly useful when you want to start your scoring\/selection process as submissions come in, and not have to wait until submissions close, without the worry of them being edited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Go to your profile<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Find the opportunity you want to lock submissions for and click the cog icon at the top right corner<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Select &#8216;Edit Entry Off&#8217;<\/span> <figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230124_032459-1024x544.png\"><\/figure> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also manually lock and unlock entries This file will show you how When running your opportunity, you can make it so that all entries are not editable once they have been submitted. This is particularly useful when you want to start your scoring\/selection process as submissions come in, and not have to wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":6457,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11801","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14233,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11801\/revisions\/14233"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}