Lock and unlock items

Lock an item in a stream to prevent changes to that item from being delivered to the stream. Unlocking the items enables other users to deliver those item revisions to the stream in the repository.

PRIVILEGES: Item Lock/Unlock to lock and unlock items and Item Break Lock to unlock an item locked by another user.

Note: You can lock items only in a stream.

To lock items:

  1. In an Items list, select one or more items.

  2. Select Item > Lock.

  3. In the Lock Item dialog box, click OK. The lock symbol indicates that the item is locked.

To unlock items:

  1. In an Items list, select one or more locked items.

  2. Select Item > Unlock.

  3. In the Unlock Item dialog box, click OK.

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