Lock and unlock assets

While you edit an asset's metadata, it is implicitly locked. This means other users cannot edit its metadata and accidentally overwrite your changes while you are editing.

1. Select an asset in the asset list or lightbox.

2. Use the "Lock" action in the context menu or magic menu. A new dialog opens.

3. Optionally enter a comment to explain why you have locked the asset.

4. Click "Lock".

5. The dialog closes and no other users (except power users with super-administrator permissions) can edit the assets anymore.

You can view an asset's locking information in the sidebar's "Information" tab. A dedicated section gives you the following information:

• The date when the lock was created

• The locking user

• The locking message (if one was entered upon locking)

Depending on your user type (e.g. consumer or power user) and whether you locked an asset yourself, the following options for unlocking an asset are available:

• Regardless of your user type, you can unlock all assets which you have locked implicitly yourself (during metadata editing). Save the asset's metadata in the detail view to remove an implicit lock.

• Regardless of your user type, you can unlock all assets which you have locked explictly yourself (with the "Lock" action). Use the "Unlock" action in the context menu or magic menu for the asset to remove an explicit lock.

• As power-users with super-administrator permissions, can unlock assets locked by other users. In this case, simply use the "Force unlock" action in the context menu or magic menu for the asset.

• Only the locking user and power users with super-administrator permissions can edit a locked asset's metadata.

• Only power users with super-administrator permissions can forcibly unlock an asset which was locked by another user.

• All users (with appropriate permissions) can still delete locked assets.

  Please note that no information about the asset's locking status is displayed during the deletion process.