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# Check Out dialog box

Use this dialog box to check out items. In the General tab, you specify where to check out items.

For a single item, see the Attributes tab/page for details on how to edit the item's user-defined attributes.

General tab

Field | Description | Rules and guidelines
--- | --- | ---
Check out to location: | Type, or accept, the name of the file to contain the checked out item. | This appears if you have selected a single item. Enter a full pathname or a pathname relative to the project root folder, or click the Browse button to find it.
Check out to folder: | Type, or accept, the name of the folder to contain the checked out items. | This appears if you have selected multiple items. Enter a full pathname or a pathname relative to the project root folder, or click the Browse button to find it.
Check out contents of project folder <name> to: | Type, or accept, the name of the folder to contain the checked out items. | This appears if you have selected a project folder. Enter a full pathname or a pathname relative to the project root folder, or click the Browse button to find it.
If writable workfile exists | Select Overwrite or Donoverwrite. | If an existing file is read-only, it is overwritten regardless of how you set this option.
Branch | Accept the named branch for the checked out item, or select a different one. | Single item selected only. If <none> is displayed, named branches are not enabled for the project.
Revision | Accept the revision ID, or enter a different one. | Single item selected only. Revision IDs are allocated according to your process model rules.
Relate to requests | Enter the name of one or more requests, or click the Browse button to find them. | Your process model may require you to specify a request. The checked out item is related to the request as In Response To, and the existing revision related as Affected.
Include subdirectories of <name> | Select to check out all items in all subdirectories. | This field only appears if you have selected a project folder.
Expand Substitution Variables | Select to expand item header substitution variables. | Note that this will only occur if Enable item header substitution is set for the item type in the Administration Console.
Write metadata | Select to write metadata to the work area. | Default is selected. If this is cleared, Dimensions CM will not write the metadata file(s) to the work area.

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See also:

- Check out and check in items

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