Requiring File Checkout for Dimensions Projects

For Dimensions CM projects, you can require users to check out files before working on them (also known as working pessimistically) by setting an option in the dm.cfg file on the Dimensions CM server.

You must set the configuration variable DM_VISUALSTUDIO_PESSIMISTIC to yes (y) as follows:

DM_VISUALSTUDIO_PESSIMISTIC y

For details on how to set options in the dm.cfg configuration file, see Administration.

Caution!

- When you work in pessimistic mode, a warning is displayed when you click the Cancel button while checking out a project file. The warning states that the action could not be completed. You can ignore this warning.

- In certain situations an alert is displayed, informing about conflicting modifications to a solution file. In this case, choose the Overwrite option.