A doubt about the protect fields feature

[ascl3pius]

My bad if the answer is obvious, i couldnt find its solution anywhere.

My doubt is say i have a 100 cards where i have edited and added some information on 10 cards. Now i use the protect fields feature and sync it with the latest updates. It will protect only the 10 cards right? the rest of the cards will get modified with the latest information?

Also my second question the 10 cards which i had edited will they stay the same or the new information is added on top of the information that i added in the first place?

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Thanks for your question about the protect fields feature in AnkiHub! Let me clarify how this works:

First Question: Selective Protection

Yes, you’re correct! If you’ve edited 10 cards out of 100 and then use the protect fields feature, only those 10 specific cards that you’ve marked for protection will be protected. The other 90 cards will continue to receive updates when you sync with AnkiHub.

Second Question: What Happens to Protected Fields

When you protect a field on a card, AnkiHub will not overwrite any information you’ve added to that field. Your edits are preserved exactly as you made them. New updates from AnkiHub will not affect or modify your protected content in any way - your information stays intact.

How to Protect Fields

There are two main ways to protect fields:

1. For individual cards:

   • Right-click on the card you want to protect
   • Select “AnkiHub: Protect Fields”
   • Choose which specific field you want to protect

2. For all cards in a deck (to protect the same field across all cards):

   • Go to the deck’s page on the AnkiHub website
   • Click the 3 dots in the top right corner
   • Select “Manage protected data”
   • Check the fields you want to protect (a tick means it will be protected)

You can also protect multiple cards at once by highlighting all the cards you want to protect and following the same steps as for individual cards.

For more detailed instructions, you can check out the official documentation: Protecting Fields and Tags

Hope this helps clarify how the protect fields feature works! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[MarcosZan]

Hello,

Let me try to clarify your first question, as I think the bot didn’t answer it completely.

As the bot mentioned, there are two ways to protect fields:

• Protecting a field for every card: This is done via the AnkiHub website. If you use this option, that specific field will not be changed by updates on any card.

• Protecting a field for a specific card: This is done by right-clicking on a card in the Anki browser. If you use this option, only the field on the specific card you selected will be protected from changes.

This feature works regardless of whether you’ve made personal edits to the field or not. If a field is protected in either of the ways I described, it simply will not receive any updates.

In short, as the bot said, a protected field will stay exactly as you left it.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

[ascl3pius]

Thanks a lot, that helps.