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Locking a workset

Locking a workset

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Locking a workset

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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'm gonna talk about a procedure that is sometimes frowned upon. We're gonna learn how we can actually make a workset unavailable to our team. So, if you're working on team projects you know that worksets control the access to the various objects in a model, and if a user checks out an object or checks out a workset and does not relinquish those elements, then those elements are not available for other folks to edit until they do. So, generally speaking what we encourage people to do is when they're done working on something to synchronize with central and relinquish everything, and of course that's absolutely considered best practice. But in certain limited circumstances, if you deliberately want to "lock a workset," then you can actually use this next procedure, like a little hack really, to kind of virtually lock a workset. So, let's take a look at the procedure. Now, normally what I would…

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