Customer Engagement & Dynamics CRM Forum

Recently, one of our users stumbled on to a way in which they were able to bypass all the stages in our business process flow (and as such leaving out required information to progress) by checking an opportunity from a View and closing it via the command ribbon at the top of the screen. From what I've already been able to find it seems like an all or nothing approach when it comes to limiting accessibility. Is there any way to possibly hide these buttons from the ribbon for just the users without taking away their privileges to close Opportunities altogether? Or rather is there a way to only allow them to close out Opportunities from the actual record so they're forced to enter all necessary information in order to continue through the business process stages? If not, any best practice tips for user adoption/training would be appreciated as well!

The Secret sauce is using Stop Workflow with a status of Canceled, which will prevent the form from saving the update. On that workflow step, be sure you give the user a message to make it more obvious why they could not close the opportunity: