.. _device-overwrite-check-exemptions:

Device Overwrite Check Exemptions
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.. _21.1|EKB-10048:

Administrators with permissions to access the Global instance of the settings
in the ``data/Settings`` model, can create a list of fields to be excluded from
device overwrite checking. 

This means that if the field changes on the device, it will *not* be overwritten by data in VOSS Automate.
The most common situation where this might be necessary is where a device field changes,
but does not affect the data on VOSS Automate, because the data is treated as read only in VOSS Automate.