Custom Object Ownership

Restriction: This feature is available only in Vault Professional.

In a replicated environment, it is necessary to have ownership of the Custom Objects that will be modified to prevent another workgroup from claiming the rights for making changes to that data.

When managing Custom Objects ownership, you can assign ownership to another group and specify lease duration for your own workgroup.

When performing an edit operation on an entity that is not owned by your workgroup, but the lease has expired for the current workgroup owner, ownership is transferred automatically to your workgroup and the edit operation succeeds. If the databases are not in sync, then ownership is transferred but the edit operation is canceled.

Access the Manage Ownership Dialog for Custom Objects

Access the Manage Ownership dialog for Custom Objects

• In the Autodesk Vault Client, right-click on the custom object(s) for which you want to manage ownership and select Manage Ownership from the context menu.

The selected custom objects are displayed in the Manage Ownership dialog with a check mark.

Custom objects that are owned by the current workgroup or with an expired lease for another workgroup appear in bold. Bold font indicates that you can change the ownership for the custom object.

Selecting and unselecting custom objects

A context menu is provided for fast access to checking and unchecking custom objects for ownership management.

1. Right-click on a custom objects to show the context menu.
2. Perform one of the following tasks:
   • Select Check to select that custom objects in the list.
   • Select Check All to select all custom objects in the list.
   • Select Uncheck to unselect that custom object in the list.
   • Select Uncheck All to unselect all custom objects.

Assign Ownership to a Different Workgroup

1. On the Manage Ownership dialog, select the workgroup to which you want to assign ownership from the Assign to workgroup drop-down menu.
   Note: The Assign to workgroup drop-down menu will only list the workgroups with the replicated vault.
2. Click OK to commit the change.

A status dialog opens to show how many custom objects succeeded in transferring ownership to the specified workgroup. If any workgroup assignments were unsuccessful, the number is displayed. Each custom object is listed with a status for additional clarification.

Change the Lease Duration

If your workgroup has control of the administrative object, you can specify the length of lease for the selected files.

1. On the Manage Ownership dialog, enter the length of the lease period (for which the workgroup should have ownership) by using the combination of input box and drop down menu. The default lease duration is zero or whatever amount that is set as default by your administrator.
2. Click OK to reset the lease duration to the specified length of time.

Release Custom Object Ownership

Ownership can be released so that another workgroup can acquire ownership if necessary.

1. With the target custom objects selected on the Manage Ownership dialog, set the lease to zero
2. Click OK. This sets the lease period to zero and frees up the leases for all selected custom objects.