Giving Entities Temporary Write Protection

Write protection can be assigned to individual entities temporarily. This write protection can be seen as an extended security instance for when two or more users have access rights to a specific entity. For example, if “User A” and “User B” are working together simultaneously on one solution, one of the two users can temporarily lock the “Building A1” entity. All lower-level child entities of this “Building A1” subtree are then also write-protected. When the work is done, the write protection can be lifted.

  1. You need to have set up corresponding users and assigned access rights in the solution (see 8 “Access Control“ Dialog).
  1. In the “Solutions” menu, click the “Configuration” menu item.
  2. In the tree structure, select the entity of type “Building” that you want to lock.
  3. Right-click on the entity and select “Lock.”
  4. The entity is marked with the symbol and can no longer be edited by other users.
  5. Carry out your work steps.
  6. Right-click on the entity and select “Unlock.”
  7. All authorized users are again able to edit the entity.