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Virtuoso Studio Design Environment SKILL Reference
Product Version IC23.1, November 2023

ddNeedCheckout

ddNeedCheckout( 
b_objId 
) 
=> t / nil 

Description

Enables the tools that need to provide automatic checkout behavior to determine if these tools need to call the ddCheckout and ddCheckin functions.

Arguments

b_objId

The ddId for a file object.

Value Returned

t

b_objId is the DM-managed object to be checked out.

nil

The library is not managed by a Design Management system, b_objId does not need to be checked out, or b_objId exists only in the temporary directory of the library.

Objects in the temporary directory cannot be managed.

Examples

vf = ddGetObj( "l1" "c1" "v1" "sch.oa" )
if ddNeedCheckout( vf ) then
    ddCheckout( vf ) 

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