Intralink file status (read only?)

[homebrewdude]

When we currently check files out of commonspace, it was leaving "intent to modify" on the files.

this caused other users to see an error message when using an assembly with the same part. (with no intention to modify it)

In the intralink options we set the status as "clear" when we check parts out.
This seems like a bad idea, since parts could be changed by 2 different people and checked in.

The error message is ok, if it can be suppressed so it cannot be seen (happens when the assembly is saved)

any suggestions?
or examples on how you have your intralink settings?

 

[onlyadrafter]

Hello,

I think there are two options, we have a similar problem, where common components are used on a number of assemblies.

1) Why not LOCK the files, so only one person who checks them out first can check them back in.

2) Leave blank and have anyone who is intending to change them lock them, so others cannot check them in.

I know I said there are two options, there is a third, but I wouldn't recomment it.


3) Leave blank and if two or more people make mods and try to check them in, the first person to check in wins and the others are left with 'TOUGH'.

Any of these viable?



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[homebrewdude]

We are currently using option 3.

When you lock the files it gives a message in pro/e that the part is locked. When ever you save an assembly it is used in.

We are currenlty manually locking the files we actually have the intention of changing.

It would not be bad, if there was a way to suppress the error message, if the parts were checked out as "read only"

I wonder if this can be controlled with the release level in intralink.
Parts designated as "released" would be checked out as read-only.

 

[looslib]

Intralink can set the files checked out to a read-only status if they user checking them out has no write access to the files. In our setup, I have ownership of all hardware items and all of the users see them as read-only files. If your users cannot save a file that is at the released design level, then they would checkout the files as read-only. It is a setting in Intralink preferences for checkout.


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Ingersoll-Rand