Locking and Unlocking Documents

You can lock or unlock from the Open dialog box or from a design that is open in CATIA. The Lock/Unlock feature prevents two different users from editing the same data at the same time. When a design is locked by one user, only the user who has locked the design can modify the design in ENOVIA. Any modifications performed by another user will be rejected (unless he has specific administrator rights which could overload the lock). The nodes of designs open in CATIA display whether the designs are locked or not.

This task shows you how to:

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Opening Documents From ENOVIA in CATIA V5

Locking and Unlocking Designs From Open Dialog Box or CATIA V5

You can lock or unlock from the Open dialog box or from a design that is open in CATIA.

Before you begin:

The documents to lock or unlock must exist in ENOVIA.

  1. Search for the designs from the Open dialog box. See Searching Documents.

    The column in the Open dialog box displays the current lock status of the designs using the following icons:

    • . Indicates that the designs are not locked.
    • . Indicates that the designs are locked by another user.
    • . Indicates that the designs are locked by you.

    The Lock Owner column displays the name of the user who has locked the design.

  2. Click the icons to change the lock status of an individual design.

    The following table lists the change in status:

    Current Lock Status Status on Clicking Icon
    The document is locked and the status is displayed as .

    or,

    an error message is displayed if you do not have the permissions to lock the design.
    The document is unlocked and the status is displayed as .

    or,

    an error message is displayed if you do not have the permissions to lock the design.
    The document is unlocked and the status is displayed as .

  3. Alternatively, right-click and click Lock or Unlock to change the status of all the selected documents in the Open dialog box. For mutiple selections, the following table lists the availability of lock/unlock commands depending on the whether the set of selected documents contains locked and/or unlocked documents:

    Status of the Selected Documents Lock Availability Unlock Availability
    All locked No Yes - Unlock applies to all documents.
    All unlocked Yes - Lock applies to all documents No
    Locked by you and Unlocked Yes - Lock applies to the unlocked documents No
    Locked by another user and other status No No

    Note: The Lock/Unlock status is not updated real-time. Any change in lock status outside the current CATIA session, is not updated until some action is performed to refresh the status.

Enabling Lock on the Fly

This section shows you the settings to enable warning messages when one or more unlocked designs are modified.

  1. In CATIA, click Tools > Options to open the Options dialog box.

  2. Click Compatibility in the left frame and select the ENOVIA V6 Integration tab.

  3. Select the Display Lock on the fly dialog box on first modification check box under Modification to unlocked Documents in the User Interface area.

  4. Click OK to save your settings.

When this option is activated, a confirmation message opens to propose locking on designs which are not locked as soon as one or more designs that are in session are modified. This dialog box lists the designs that should be locked. Click Yes to lock the listed designs.