Disable DUNs attribute on Suppliers’ General Info

I have a requirement to disable the DUNs attribute on the General Info tab from the Component Manufacturer subclass under Suppliers class.
When I open the General Info tab attributes form the suppliers class, the visible field is not editable. Its greyed out.
Can we really disable this attribute or any privilege needed to do this which my profile is missing?

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No, it cannot be disabled. It is considered as essential/almost required for some areas of business that Agile is used in (High Tech, Aerospace/Defense), so it was set up as not being able to make the attribute non-visible.
 That said, you can rename it (to “.”, for example, or “_”) to make it “invisible”, move it to last in the display order, and make sure it is *not* required. You may get a few users who wonder “what the heck is that?”, but most will probably ignore it, and eventually forget about it.

Agile Angel Answered on June 24, 2016.
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Kevin is correct that the field can’t be disabled in the traditional sense, but there is a work-around to get what you are looking for.  
Also – It appears that you are only trying to “disable” the field for the Component Manufacturer subclass – which I would assume means you want it to still show up on the others.  Changing the name of the field would probably not be a good solution if this is the case as it would be renamed for all of them.

In order to hide the field from all subclasses – you would need to locate and modify any/all of the “Read” privilege masks which currently allow users to see this field.  Then simply remove the “DUNs” attribute from the ‘Applied to’ section. Also remove any “Display No Privilege Fields” privileges (if applicable) – otherwise they will still see the field itself, just not the populated values.

If you only want it hidden from a specific subclass, but visible in the rest (which might be more work than its worth) – you would need to create some new Criteria and Read privilege masks and only remove the field from the privileges that pertain to the Component Manufacturer subclass.

Agile Angel Answered on June 27, 2016.
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