Checking In a File
This section describes the Check In action available from Windchill.
Check In is not an available action if there is no primary server and primary workspace. You must register a server from > in Windchill Workgroup Manager, and activate a workspace.
When you are finished making changes to a file, and you are ready to publish the changes to the shared area on the server, you must check in your objects. The following graphic illustrates the information flow during check-in.
| Check in transfers data from the server-side workspace to the commonspace. If you check in an object directly from the authoring application, the data is transferred from Creo Illustrate to the server-side workspace, and then to the Windchill server. |
Check In accomplishes the following:
• Copies the working copy of your object from your workspace to the shared area of the server.
• Creates a new iteration of the checked-out object in the shared area.
• If this object was checked out by you, release the lock on the object in the shared area, so that others can access it.
• Check In is initiated from
Windchill when you click
Check In
on the workspace
Object List table ribbon.
• Select > from Windchill.
• From
Creo Illustrate, select
Check In 
, or
Custom Check In on the
Windchill ribbon.
When you initiate check in, you can choose from two options in Creo Illustrate:
• Check In When you select Check In, your object is directly copied to the commonspace. The process follows the defaults you or your administrator has set up, and checks in what has changed in modified objects.
• Custom Check In When you select Custom Check In, you check in objects with changed settings using the Windchill HTML user interface. When you select Custom, you can specify certain options that are applied to the object you are checking in. Custom takes you through two pages where you can specify the following options.
For example, use
Custom Check In when you want to associate an illustration with an
Illustration Holder during first-time check-in.
1. Collect Objects
The Collect Objects page allows you to select the objects you want to check in. Select the check boxes next to the objects you do not want to be visible to others on the Windchill server. Go to Edit menu and select Set For Check in to deselect the selected items for check-in. Select Next.
On the File menu, select Check Out Now. The object can be checked out using the Check in option.
On the Edit menu, you can select Set Location, Keep Check out, or Set For Check in.
| During check-in, you have the option of picking a folder location, or browsing to a product ASPS location. You can also provide an optional check in comment. |
2. Set Options
The Set Options page allows you to specify certain options for the objects you are checking in. Select the check box next to the options you want to set. You can choose to do the following.
▪ Create a baseline.
▪ Undo check out of unmodified objects.
▪ Remove objects from the workspace.
▪ Auto-resolve incomplete objects, either:
▪ Update with objects on the server, then ignore.
▪ Always ignore.
3. Click Finish to check in the file.
For information about
Check In, see
Checking in Objects to Windchill.
