IWWCM - Work with locked and draft items
As you work in collaboration with other users, you will encounter items that are locked by other users, either because they are being edited by another user, or a draft item has been created.
Work with locked items
When a user is editing an item, the item will be locked to other users. This means other users will not be able to edit the item until the current user closes the item being edited. A lock symbol
is displayed against items that are currently locked.
Administrators can lock an item by selecting an item and then clicking either the Lock button. This prevents any user from editing an item.
Administrators can also unlock items currently being edited by a user by selecting an item and then clicking the Unlock button. This feature should be used sparingly as this will allow multiple users to edit the same item. Any changes made by the first user to save the item will be replaced with any changes made by the next user to save the item.
Hierarchical item locking options
Locking of sites, site areas, taxonomies and categories is configurable and is not enabled by default.
When locking is enabled for these item types, any children of a locked item will also be locked. For example, if a site is being edited, all the site areas and content items within the site will also be locked.
Work with draft items
When a new draft of a published item is created, a tick is displayed against the published item. This means that no other user can create a draft until the current draft progresses through a workflow and its state changes to published.
Parent Topic
Collaborative authoring