Working Environment : Workareas : Sharing the Workarea

Sharing the Workarea

If a team wants to view the complete model, without each user having to check-out all charts and files into his own personal workarea, they should use a shared workarea. A shared workarea is a workarea that is available for all team members to examine in read-only mode.

To create a shared workarea:

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The owner of the new workarea clicks the Share/UnShare toggle button to make the workarea shared (the text on the button changes according to the toggle selection).
Note: When no workarea is selected, the Share/UnShare toggle button is dimmed, so be certain to select a workarea before clicking the toggle.

The owner of a shared workarea sees it displayed as a regular workarea while the other team members view it as a shared workarea and in read-only mode. The other team members see it listed in the Project Workareas list, but, of course, they cannot modify it.

When working in a shared workarea, the following operations are not allowed (for users other than the owner):