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Allowing Object Locking for a Project

This task is a step in Roadmap for Setting Up and Using Siebel Tool.

If the Allow Object Locking property of a project is set to TRUE, then the following situations apply:

• You cannot check out this project from the server repository. To check out an entire project from the server repository, you must set the Allow Object Locking property to FALSE.
• You can check out and check in an object that reference this project.

If the Allow Object Locking property of a project is set to TRUE, and if another developer has already checked out an object that references this project, then you cannot do the following work on this object:

• Delete the object.
• Rename the object.
• Assign the object to a different project.

You cannot set the Allow Object Locking property for a project that resides in your local repository.

To allow object locking for a project

1. Log in to Siebel Tools with the SADMIN user Id and connect to the server repository.

   To modify the Allow Object Locking property, you must use the SADMIN user Id and Siebel Tools must connect to the server data repository. For more information, see Specifying the Data Source That Siebel Tools Uses.

2. In the Object Explorer, click Project.
3. In the Projects list, locate a project.

   For more information, see Locating and Modifying an Object Definition in the Object List Editor.

4. Right-click the project you located in Step 3, and then click Toggle Allow Object Locking.

   If an object that references this project is locked in the server repository, then Siebel Tools sends an error message to the system administrator. Siebel Tools does not display the Toggle Allow Object Locking option in the following situations:

   • Someone else already locked this project in the server repository.
   • The EnableObjectCOCI parameter in the Siebel Tools configuration file is set to FALSE.
   • You do not log in to Siebel Tools with the SADMIN user Id.
   • Siebel Tools is not connected to the server repository.