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WORKING WITH THE REPOSITORY > WORKING WITH OBJECTS IN THE REPOSITORY
• Synchronize with latest Repository diagram data: Lets you synchronize your diagram data with the
Repository’s diagram data. For example, if an item is in a different location or has a different background color in
the Repository version than in your version, you can update your diagram with the information from the
Repository. In general, the check out operation finishes more quickly if you do not select this option; select this
option only if you want to retrieve the very latest version of the Objects from the Repository.
• Check out Exclusively: If selected, lets you check out an item with exclusive rights. This restricts any other user
from checking out the item while you have the item checked out. You are the only who modify the item and submit
the data to the Repository. When you check out an item exclusively, other users have read-only and/or 'Delayed
Check Out’ access while the objects are checked out.
Notes
• If you check out a parent item that has a lot of relationships, the relationship-dependent items will also be
checked out.
• You cannot check out an item exclusively if another user has it checked out. You can find out who has an item
checked out, by right-clicking the item, selecting Version History, and then clicking the CheckOut Status tab.
• If you do not select check out exclusively, but attempt to add an object to a model, you’ll be prompted to check
out the model exclusively.
• Working locally, if you check an object out of the Repository, ER/Studio saves a writable copy to your local
machine. If you then disconnect from the Repository you can still make changes before checking back in your
work. When you reconnect to the Repository, you will still have the objects checked out. For your changes to
commit, you need to log in to the Repository and check in your changes.
• Instead of checking out an entire diagram, you can get single object or multiple objects.
• When you check out an object, object structural and Referential Integrity (RI) dependencies are also checked
out. This means that you will get the latest versions of all dependencies as well.
• The Repository Check Out operation is the same for diagrams and objects. The menu varies depending on what
you select in the Data Model Explorer.
• Multiple users can have the same object checked out simultaneously.
• You can check out an entire diagram from the Repository. When you do so, the diagram data dictionary is also
checked out.
• You can check out an individual data dictionary object. If the data dictionary object is not bound to any attributes,
you can check out or check in the data dictionary object without affecting the diagram. If the data dictionary object
is bound to an attribute, and changes to the data dictionary object affect the attribute, then the attribute is marked
for a delayed check out.
Discarding Changes Made to a Checked Out Diagram
If you have checked out a diagram, made changes to it, and want to undo all the changes you made you can undo the
check out.
1 Login to the Repository and open the target diagram.
2 To discard the changes, without checking out the diagram again, click Repository > Diagrams > Undo Diagram
Check Out.
To discard the changes, and check out the diagram again, click Repository > Diagrams > Redo Diagram
Check Out.
This refreshes the local copy of the diagram with the latest version from the Repository.
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