Permission Required to Open a Design Partition View

Designers must have write permission to open a design partition view for concurrent editing. In the Design Management (DM) environment file permission is handled by the DM check-in and check-out process. Otherwise, the manager can use UNIX commands to change the file permissions.

When the manager and designers are in the same group, the following command can be used to grant the group write permission:

chmod -R g +w <design_partition_views>

Alternatively, you can change UMASK as shown below before launching Virtuoso to set the file permission for all the files created by the current Virtuoso process.

% umask

=> 22

Change the UMASK setting and start Virtuoso. You might need this setting when the manager and designers are not in the same group.

% umask 0

The UMASK change affects all new files in the current Virtuoso session; if you use commands such as Save As and Copy, the file permission might not be as expected.

% virtuoso &

After you have defined and saved new design partitions, exit Virtuoso and restore the UMASK setting by using the following command.

% umask 22

Virtuoso Concurrent Layout User Guide
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023