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 discarded 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 a Creo Parametric 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 Creo Parametric file ( Windchill PDMLink,Windchill ProjectLink, or Pro/INTRALINK only).

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.

Content download, setting configuration from a product structure, and collection of related objects other than dependents do not apply to dynamic documents.

1. In the active workspace, select the objects whose checkout you want to undo and select File > Undo Check Out or click the undo checkout icon

in the tool bar.

You can also initiate an undo of checkout from other places in Windchill (for example, from a checked-out object's information page, or a Folders page) by selecting Undo Check Out from an Actions menu.

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. Select 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:

The Reuse option is only available with Pro/ENGINEER 4.0 M070 and later releases. Beginning with Pro/ENGINEER 4.0 M110 and later releases and also with Creo Parametric M010 and later releases, the Reuse option applies to objects whose modifications have been uploaded. At earlier release levels, the reuse option is not applicable to objects whose modifications have been uploaded.

Toolbar Icon	Workspace Content Status Symbol	Description
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.