Locking and Unlocking Objects in the Workspace
You can lock an object to avoid unintentional modifications. When you lock an object in the Workspace, its status becomes read-only, and the object cannot be overwritten until it is unlocked. Locking is a Workspace feature and is not available in Commonspace.
The
Lock command is available in the
Windchill Workgroup Manager client user interface. To lock an object, select the object and click > . The object becomes read-only, and is marked as such by a status icon
in the
General status column. To unlock a locked object, click > . The
Check Out command automatically removes the lock from an object.
| You can set the Automatically lock objects added to workspace preference to Yes to lock all objects, by default, as they are added to the Workspace. |
| The CAD worker ignores the Automatically lock objects added to workspace preference and successfully publishes the CAD documents, which are locked. |
When you lock an object which is modified in session, the object does not become read-only. You must lock an object before modifying the object in session.
When a file is locked in the Workspace and then opened in a CAD session, the menus related to editing the objects become unavailable. For such objects, the Save command opens the Save As window, enabling you to save the object with a different name.
