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Setting up the Check In/Check Out system
Before you can use the Check In/Check Out system, you must have associated
your local site with a remote FTP or network server (see “Associating a remote
server with a local site” on page 124). Then you must set up the following options.
To set Check In/Check Out options:
1
Choose Site > Define Sites, select a site, and click Edit.
2
In the Category list at the left, click Remote Info.
3
Do any of the following:
•
Select the Enable File Check In and Check Out option if you are working in a
team environment (or working alone but from several different machines).
This option is useful for letting others know that you have a file checked out
for editing, or for alerting yourself that you may have left a more recent version
of a file on another machine. See “Using Check In/Check Out” on page 131.
•
Select the Check Out Files when Opening option if you want files to
automatically be checked out when you double-click to open them from the
Site window. (Using File > Open to open a file doesn’t check the file out even
when this option is selected.)
•
Enter a check-out name.
The check-out name appears in the Site window alongside any files that you
have checked out, enabling other team members to locate you if you have a file
that they need. If you work alone from several different machines, use a
different check-out name on each machine (for example, AmyR-HomeMac
and AmyR-OfficePC) so you’ll know where the latest version of the file is if you
forget to check it back in.
•
Enter an e-mail address.
If you enter an e-mail address and then check out a file, your name appears in
the Site window next to that file as a clickable link (blue and underlined). If a
team member clicks on the link, their default e-mail program pops up with a
new message. The To field will contain the e-mail address, and the Subject field
will contain the corresponding file and site name.