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Guidelines for Check Out and Check In

If you check out or check in a project or an object, then it is recommended that you use the following guidelines:

• To check out a project, you must disable password encryption in the client or in the CFG file when you run Siebel Tools. Password encryption interferes with check out.
• You check out projects and objects only in the language mode that Siebel Tools uses. For more information, see Enabling Language Override.
• The sample database cannot receive checked out projects or objects from the server repository. You cannot check in projects or objects from the sample database to the server repository. The sample database is for instructional use only.
• You can check out and check in objects only with the server repository that you use to extract the local repository.
• Before doing a check-in, you must make sure that the projects and objects you are checking in are stable, that all scripting is complete, and that you successfully tested the configuration in your local repository.
• To make sure that the configuration in the server repository remains consistent, it is recommended that you check in all projects and objects that you modify at the same time. For example, if you create a new picklist that references the Picklist project, and if you configure Siebel CRM to reference this object in the Oppty project, then check these projects into the server repository at the same time.
• Consider how the timing of your check-in affects other developers.

  CAUTION:  Depending on the project size, a check-in might require significant time to finish. Do not interrupt a check-in. If you interrupt a check-in, then the repository might become unstable. If for any reason a check-in is interrupted, you must do the check-in again until it finishes successfully.