Check In
This section describes the Check In action available from PTC Mathcad and also from Windchill.
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 PTC Mathcad 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, releases the lock on the object in the shared area, so that others can access it.
• Can create a static, client-side viewable of the checked-in file. This feature is dependent upon the preferences set in
Windchill for viewable generation at check in, or in the
wgmclient.ini file. For more information on viewable generation, refer to
Creating Client-side Viewables.
Check In is in initiated in PTC Mathcad from the File menu:
Check In is initiated from the
Windchill Workgroup Manager when you click on the
Check In
icon on the workspace
Object List table toolbar, or on the workspace
Actions column. You can also perform a
Check In from the
Windchill Workspace
File menu.
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When you initiate Check In, you can choose from two options:
• Auto Check In
When you select Auto 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 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.
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 don't 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.
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.
Press Finish to check in the file.
Check In is not an available action if there is no primary server and primary workspace. You must register a server from the > utility in Windchill Workgroup Manager, and activate a workspace.
For information about
Check In, see
Checking in Objects to Windchill.
