About protecting study objects

When a study or library is protected, changes cannot be made to study objects or to the structure of the study or library.

Impact of protecting a study

In a protected study, you cannot do the following	In a protected study, you can do the following
Update a protected study object. Explicitly or implicitly lock a protected study object. Drag and drop a study object onto a protected study object. Paste a study object onto a protected study object. Delete a study object that is the direct child of a protected study object.	Validate, create, and delete baselines. Create and delete deployment packages. Add or copy and paste a study object into a container in the flat view. Copy and paste a protected study object onto an unprotected study object. The protected study object remains protected. Delete a study object that is not the direct child of a protected study object.

Note: If a protected rule references a study object for which the RefName is modified, the rule is updated with the new RefName.

When a study object is protected, its icon changes to reflect its protected state.

For each study object, you can:

Protect—Protect the selected study object and all its children regardless of their origin, including study objects that you copied into the study or library from another project.
Note: You cannot delete study objects that are the direct children of a protected study object.

Note: You can protect templates and types. However, if you create a new study object from a template or type, the newly created study object is not protected.
Unprotect—Unprotect only the selected study object. You can unprotect a study object that came from a library only if you have the Unprotect study objects from libraries right.
Unprotect with children—Unprotect the selected study object and all of its children.
The way that children are unprotected depends upon the location in which you are working.
- In a study:
  - If the study object that you are unprotecting with children was copied from a library, the study object and all of its children are unprotected as long as you have the Unprotect study objects from libraries right.
  - If the study object that you are unprotecting with children was created in the study and you copied one or more of its children from a library, the study object is unprotected, but any children copied from the library are not unprotected. You can unprotect them individually if you have the Unprotect study objects from libraries right.
- In a library:
  - The study object and all of its children are unprotected, regardless of whether or not any of the children were copied from a library or study as long as you have the Unprotect study objects in libraries right. If you do not have this right, the parent and children remain protected.
Note: You are not prompted or required to save after you protect or unprotect a study object. Protecting and unprotecting does not change the study object.

You cannot protect the following areas:

The Study and Library Editors.
The Jobs Browser.
The Baselines Browser.

Note: After you protect a study object, you cannot select undo, but you can select unprotect.

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