Check Out dialog box
Use this dialog box to check out items. On 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 |
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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 occurs only 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. |
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