Undoing a Checkout
There are multiple reasons for deciding to undo a checkout. You may want to discard the latest changes to an object and return to the version of the object stored in Windchill. You may simply want to remove the lock that your checkout has placed on the object.
When you undo a checkout, changes you have made to the content and metadata of the object are retained by default. You can configure it to discard the change using the preference Undo Checkout Overwrite Local Content and the content as stored in Windchill is downloaded to the workspace. You can choose not to have the Windchill content downloaded.
If you select a member of the family table for undo check out and it is modified, then you need to cancel checkout on all members of the family table. This is because they share the same file.
You cannot undo checkout on a modified assembly, unless its modified children are also on the undo check out list. Changes made in the assembly may require changes made in their components.
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Content download, setting configuration from a product structure, and collection of related objects other than dependents do not apply to dynamic documents.
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To undo the checkout of one or more objects:
1. In the active workspace, select the objects whose checkout you want to undo and select > or click the undo checkout icon 
in the tool bar.
in the tool bar.The Undo Check Out page appears displaying your initially selected objects and any dependents collected by default in a table listing. For more information on basic table use, sorting, using and customizing views, and finding strings in the table listing, see Using Tables and Customizing Table Views.
2. You can collect, remove, include, or exclude objects for the Undo Checkout action using the advanced mode of the collection user interface, which includes options to set a configuration specification The basic collection mode is not available for this action. For more information, see Collecting in Advanced Mode.
3. Specify primary content handling by selecting one or more objects and then applying the appropriate setting, using the table toolbar. The current content-handling setting for each object is indicated by a symbol in the Workspace content status column. The following table describes the content-handling controls and indicators:
Toolbar Icon | Workspace Content Status Symbol | Description |
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 Download |  | Commonspace content is downloaded to workspace upon execution of action. |
 Link |  | Only metadata is downloaded to the workspace and a link is created to the commonspace content for later content download, if necessary. |
 Reuse |  | No content is downloaded. Instead, the content on the version currently in the workspace (including any local modifications) is preserved. |
| | The Reuse option is only available when the Undo Check Out action is initiated from a primary active workspace viewed in the embedded browser. It is not available in standalone mode. |
4. Optionally, click the reset icon 
to revert the Object List to listing the objects it contained upon initiation of the action.
to revert the Object List to listing the objects it contained upon initiation of the action.5. Click OK.
The checkout of the selected objects is undone.
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