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Overview of Check Out and Check In

You can use check out and check in to do the following:

• Allow multiple developers to work on objects in a single project.
• Improve check-out and check-in times.
• Reduce network traffic.

You can check out and check in projects or objects to help make sure only one developer works on an object at one time. You can check out objects from the server repository and download them to your local repository for editing. If you check out an object, then Siebel Tools locks the object in the server Repository and no other developer can check it out. This configuration helps to avoid conflicts that result if more than one developer works on the same object at the same time. If you check in an object, then Siebel Tools removes the lock and other developers can check it out.