One user in the team not able to lock packages / elements

[heba]

Hi all,

We work in a team with EA on a SQL server-based model.  Security is enabled, we use windows authentication and have a EA group with common permissions.  These permissions include the "Lock Elements" permission.

Now one user in the team cannot lock packages or elements while all other can. I checked the permissions, the group rights and did not find a difference to others.  I also created a local user for him but it still did not work.

Does anyone have ideas where I can look further into the problem?  I don't have any idea how to debug this .)  Maybe there are local settings which I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance!
Heiko

[Geert Bellekens]

Heiko,

How do you know that he can't lock packages or elements?
Do you get an error?
Is the menu option not there?
Is the menu option grayed out?

Geert

[heba]

Hello Geert,

The option does not show up in his EA.

My menu looks quite complete with some options greyed out:
 - Apply/release user lock...
 - Configure
 - Package Baselines
 - (greyed) Save package ...
 - (greyed) Load package ...
 - (greyed) View package ...
 - Compare package with XMI
 - Merge package with XMI
 - (greyed) Import a model branch
 - Version control settings

His menu:
 - Merge package with XMI
Nothing else.

Kind regards
Heiko

[Geert Bellekens]

I see, your collegue is a victim of "Workspaces and commands"

There are a number of predefined menu sets that limit the menu options.
In order to get them all back go to
(V13) Ribbon Start | Workspace | Perspectives | Menu Sets and choose the option Complete

In v12 this functionality is somewhere under the View menu IIRC.

Geert

[heba]

Yes, this is the solution!  Thank you!

I never used this feature and I wonder how he switched it on.  Anyway, it works and now he can start working 

Heiko

[Geert Bellekens]

Yes, this is the solution!  Thank you!

I never used this feature and I wonder how he switched it on.  Anyway, it works and now he can start working 

Heiko

When first installing or upgrading to version 12 you get a popup asking to choose a perspective.
If you then choose for something like "Business analyst" (which is logical if that is your function) then you are stuck with that perspective as your default perspective.

Geert

[qwerty]

This must be a useful feature since it has been invented by skilled programmers. And therefore we will all see this question until doomsday, because it's out of question to remove it.

q.