The Check Out option from the Manage menu allows you to allows you to lock a file, folder, or project from the Change Management Server. Another logged in user cannot modify that item or items until you check the specified item or item back in.
Optionally, if the file or folder on your local computer is newer than the one in the Change Management Server, you can leave the local copy of the file or folder, and still lock the files on the Change Management Server with the Check Out option so that no one else can edit them.
To copy files from the Server to your local computer when checking out, clear the Don't overwrite local file(s) with managed copy check box in the Check Out dialog, as shown in the following figure. Be aware that if you are checking out pictures and there are pictures are open the WorkSpace with the same name, you need to close them and re-open them in the WorkSpace to view the Server versions locally.
If you try to open a read-only file on your local computer, that resides on the Change Management Server, but is not checked out, the Change Management - Open dialog box appears, as shown in the next figure. If you click Yes to this dialog box, the Check Out dialog box also appears.
If you try to open a file that is checked out by another user, or by you on another computer, you cannot modify that item or items until the user checks the specified item or items back in, giving up source control. The following message box appears.
To check out a file, folder, or project:
- In the iFIX WorkSpace system tree, right-click the file, folder, or project that you want to check out, and on the Manage menu, select Check Out. The Check Out dialog box appears.
- If you want to copy the files from the Change Management Server to your local computer when checking them out, clear the Don't overwrite local file(s) with managed copy check box.
- Optionally, in the Comment text box, enter a comment. The comment can be no longer than 255 characters. The comments you enter are recorded on the Change Management Server.
- Click OK. A status box appears on screen as the files check out.
NOTE: If comments are required, the OK button in this dialog box does not become available until you enter a comment. Comments are required when you enable them in the iFIX User Preferences dialog box, on the Change Management tab, by selecting the Require Comments to Check In and Check Out Files check box.
