Change Ownership
Ownership of documents locks the documents, giving the owners the opportunity
to check in the next revision and to block other users from checking them
in. However, owners can check in documents only if they also have read/write
access for the next revision, which
may depend on lifecycle status. Ownership
does not imply read/write access or guarantee the ability to check in
the next revision.
You can change ownership of a document from the vault view.
To take ownership, you must have write permission to the project
containing the document and the document must not be owned by someone
else. Unlike Get
Local Copy and Open Document, taking ownership does not copy
the document to your local drive. Vault administrators can allow or block
users from taking ownership based on the document's revision level if they
have read-only access to documents.
You can release ownership of a document without checking it in, allowing
another user to take ownership or check out the document.
To change ownership of a document:
-
Right-click document and select Take
Ownership or Release Ownership.
In the SolidWorks Explorer client, you can select a document and click
Take Ownership
or
Release Ownership
on the Mini Toolbar.
If the document has references and Show
dialog when item has children is selected under Change
ownership in Options,
the Take or Release
Ownership dialog box appears. Otherwise, the change in ownership
takes place immediately, and you must change each document individually.
If the Take
or Release
Ownership dialog box appears,
select or clear:
Selected item.
Document's children
(all items under selected). Change ownership for the select document's
children. Choose either First level children
only or All children.
Do not change
ownership if document is a link. Do not change ownership if the
document resides in another project and is referenced by a link
.
Click Own
or Disown.