User Guide - MKS

Chapter 9: Viewing and Editing Member Histories and Revisions
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If you attempt to unlock a revision that is locked by another user, a
message warns you that you are about to break someone else’s lock.
NOTE
Although you may not be prohibited from breaking someone else’s lock, you
should be cautious about doing so, because it can result in confusion and
duplication of effort in shared working environments. For information on
permissions, see the Integrity Server Installation and Administration Guide.
To unlock a revision in the graphical user interface and Web interface
Do one of the following:
With a Member History window open, select a revision to unlock
(denoted by a padlock symbol), then do one of the following:
Select History > Unlock.
Click .
Locking Multiple Revisions
With the Locks for User window open (see “Locks View” on
page 428), select one or more locked revisions, then select Locks >
Unlock.
If the lock is not held by you, you are asked to confirm breaking the lock.
To confirm that you want to break the lock, click Yes.
The padlock symbol and the name of the user who had the revision locked
both disappear.
Locking a revision ensures that no one else can modify that revision. In
some cases locking more than one revision in a member history at the same
time is required.
Cases where you may require multiple locking include:
You are working on both the main branch of development (where new
development is occurring) and in a variant sandbox (where fixes are
occurring)
You are working in two variant sandboxes and need to modify a
different revision in the same member history in each sandbox
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