Document Lifecycle Management
SmarTeam - Web Editor enables you to perform any revision operation on an object and all its children simultaneously. For example, if you have an Engine that has many children, you can perform any revision operation (such as Check In, Check Out, Release) on the Engine together with all its components simultaneously.
As you revise a drawing or assembly, you can perform the following Lifecycle operations:
- Check out the file from the vault (using the Check Out option) in order to modify it and launch it in its original application. When a file is checked out of the vault, it can only be modified by the current user.
- Check in the object to the vault for safekeeping, using the Check In option. When an object is checked in to the vault, it is made publicly available to other users.
- Copy a file to your working directory in order to view it. In this case, you cannot modify the file, and the original file remains in the vault. This option is helpful when another user is modifying a file, but you want to view it from a working directory.
- Release the object by placing its file in the Released vault, using the Release option. The object can then be checked out for modification, using the New Release option, but only after creating a new revision.
- Obsolete the object by placing its file in the Obsolete vault, using the Obsolete option. The Obsolete object can no longer be modified.
- Undo Check out enables you to change your mind and cancel a Check out operation.
The following illustration displays the Lifecycle flow of a document: