Controlling Automatic Checkin Behavior

To control automatic check-in behavior, perform the following steps:

1. On the Auto Checkin form, click Show Auto Checkin Preferences.
2. Automatic check-in preferences appear at the bottom of the Auto Checkin form.
3. You can set automatic check-in options separately for cellviews and for properties and files.

To display these preferences from the CIW, do the following:

1. Choose Options – Checkin Preferences.
2. The Auto Checkin Preferences form appears.

Always Ask Me

To force the software to prompt you whenever the automatic check-in process is triggered, do the following:

1. In the drop-down list, select always ask me.
2. Click OK.

The tool always prompts for automatic check-in. Your changes take effect immediately.

Never Ask Me

To set the automatic check-in behavior so that you are never prompted, do the following:

1. In the drop-down list, select never ask me.
   A new drop-down list appears to the right of the original drop-down list.
   Whenever you select never ask me in either of the When auto checking in drop-down lists, you must also select an automatic check-in option.
2. In the drop-down list to the right of never ask me, select one of the following choices:
   

   Choice	Behavior
   always auto checkin	Always check in the item automatically when closing it
   never auto checkin	Do not perform automatic check-in when closing the item

3. Click OK.

Your changes take effect immediately.

The cellviews are not automatically checked in by default. If you need all the cellviews to be checked-in to the batch mode, then in the When auto checking in cellViews section of the Auto Checkin Preferences form, you need to choose the never ask me option from the first drop-down list and then choose the always auto checkin option from the second drop-down list. Auto checkin of cellview in the batch mode is also possible using the ddAuto* SKILL API irrespective of the GUI setting.

Related Topics

Auto Checkin Environment Variable Settings

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