The Lock feature allows you to lock Items from being edited within a Project, lock the entire project from being edited, and/or lock reports from being generated. The latter two can be manually set here or they can be triggered by Workflow Rules. Each feature has an unlock option.
You must have permissions to lock/unlock Items, Projects, or Project Reports.
This will lock a Project for all edits, i.e. the Project is read-only. This can be set manually here or a lock can be triggered via Workflow Rules.
You'll be prompted to confirm:
Locked Projects display with the following icon in the Project Explorer:
This will lock Project Reports and users will not be able to generate reports for the Project.This can be set manually here or a lock can be triggered via Workflow Rules.
You'll be prompted to confirm:
Projects with locked Reports display with the following icon in the Project Explorer:
You may wish to lock certain items within a Project to prevent them from being edited, e.g. installed items.
Select the Products you wish to lock and then click the [Lock] button and select "Lock Items". Click [Yes] on the following prompt:
A lock icon will appear in a column within the Project Editor indicating that the items are locked:
If you want to unlock items, select them and then click the [Lock] button and select "Unlock Items".