Is it possible to make all cells for a given column read-only via the API? I’d like the column’s value to only be updated via my item view app. I don’t want users to be able to manually change the cell value for the column my app creates.

I’m creating the column itself via this api call:

export async function createColumn(boardId: string) {

  try {

    const response = await monday.api(`

      mutation {

        create_column(

          board_id: ${boardId}

          title: "Example Status"

          column_type: status

          description: "This column indicates status."

          defaults: "{\\\\"labels\\\\":{\\\\"0\\\\":\\\\"In Progress\\\\", \\\\"1\\\\":\\\\"To Do\\\\", \\\\"2\\\\":\\\\"Done\\\\"}}"

        ) {

          id

        }

      }

    `);

    return response?.data?.create_column?.id;

  } catch (error) {

    console.error("Error creating status column:", error);

    throw new Error("Failed to create status column");

  }

}

Based on the columns documentation I’m not seeing any parameters that allow it.

Is there another way to make all cells for a given column read-only that I’m missing?