<p>I deleted the rule and recreated it. That fixed the issue.</p>

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Marcel
<p>I added rules to make some fields of my backlog items read-only for everyone who hasn't got a specific role. That works for all fields except the description field. The description field remains editable. Why does my rule not work on the description field?
The screenshot below shows the configuration of the read-only rule.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/BOFdj.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/BOFdj.png" alt="read-only rule on field description" /></a></p>

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Azure DevOps won't make description field read-only
Marcel
# Azure DevOps won't make description field read-only

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-11-30)

I added rules to make some fields of my backlog items read-only for everyone who hasn't got a specific role. That works for all fields except the description field. The description field remains editable. Why does my rule not work on the description field?
The screenshot below shows the configuration of the read-only rule.

[![read-only rule on field description](https://i.sstatic.net/BOFdj.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/BOFdj.png)

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2023-11-30. Score: 0

I deleted the rule and recreated it. That fixed the issue.


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