Protection Class

Protection.When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is x:protection.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlElement
    DocumentFormat.OpenXml.OpenXmlLeafElement
      DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet.Protection

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class Protection _
    Inherits OpenXmlLeafElement
'Usage
Dim instance As Protection
public class Protection : OpenXmlLeafElement

Remarks

[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

18.8.33 protection (Protection Properties)

Contains protection properties associated with the cell. Each cell has protection properties that can be set. The cell protection properties do not take effect unless the sheet has been protected.

Parent Elements

dxf (§18.8.14); ndxf (§18.11.1.4); odxf (§18.11.1.6); xf (§18.8.45)

Attributes

Description

hidden (Hidden Cell)

A boolean value indicating if the cell is hidden. When the cell is hidden and the sheet on which the cell resides is protected, then the cell value is displayed in the cell grid location, but the contents of the cell will not be displayed in the formula bar. This is true for all types of cell content, including formula, text, or numbers.

Therefore the cell A4 can contain a formula "=SUM(A1:A3)", but if the cell protection property of A4 is marked as hidden, and the sheet is protected, then the cell should display the calculated result [Example: "6" end example], but will not display the formula used to calculate the result.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the W3C XML Schema boolean datatype.

locked (Cell Locked)

A boolean value indicating if the cell is locked. When cells are marked as "locked" and the sheet is protected, then the options specified in the Sheet Part's sheetProtection element (§18.3.1.85) are prohibited for these cells.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the W3C XML Schema boolean datatype.

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_CellProtection) is located in §A.2. end note]

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Protection Members

DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet Namespace