# Ability to lock Binder items **URL:** \ **Category:** Wish List\ **Created:** [November 12, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ability-to-lock-binder-items/24378 "2013-11-12T21:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![edf](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@edf](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/edf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ability-to-lock-binder-items/24378/1 "2013-11-12T21:50:15Z")
I’m terrible with a touchpad (and even worse with a touchscreen). Spurious clicks abound. With Scrivener, this results in the accidental re-ordering of Binder items while doing editing (never happens during writing, for what are probably obvious reasons). Normally this is only a minor incovenience. In a recent project with ~400 Binder leaves, I began using the Document Notes to track which folder a leaf belonged in – just in case I accidentally moved it to a different folder/parent. With a Binder of this size, it is difficult to tell if a leaf got moved; once moved, it is difficult to determine where it had moved from. It would be nice to have a toggle to lock/unlock the Binder. As a workflow: you lay out your initial document tree structure, then you lock the Binder; if you later need to change the format, you specifically unlock the Binder in order to make the change. I’m not sure how difficult this would be (the Tree widget probably doesn’t have a “no moving items” mode, so it would require additional logic to the Drop-internal handler). It may not even warrant a fix – there can’t be too many of us clumsy-fingered users working on documents with rigid hierarchies. That said, I recently spent a month building a 200+ page technical document (read: lots of graphs and equations) with Scrivener (on Linux!), and this was the only problem I encountered. I couldn’t say the same for any other piece of software that’s more complex than vi 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/ability-to-lock-binder-items/24378)._