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We have a user that has some CAD files that need to get checked in, problem is that he is out for an extended period of time.
Can the Admin checkin his work? (I don't have access to his machine)
I know I can Undo his checkouts, but I want to checkin what he has in his workspace.
Windchill PDMLink 9.1
Wildfire 5.0
Thanks
-TT
The short answer is "no, an admin cannot simply check in another user's work".
However, the admin has access to the principal manager. Through that the admin can change the absent user's password, then log in as that user and check in all work.
If your config is not set to upload automatically during every save, the admin will have to sit at that user's computer to perform this.
Of course this will cause some hassle for the absent user to get his new password from the admin, then reset his password, but if the need is great enough this should be a minor concern.
Exactly right, Ben. That's what I was talking about.
For those of you who are curious, the config.pro option to automatically upload objects from a workspace is
Every time a file is saved in Pro/E, an upload occurs in the background. As Ben mentioned, this allows that user to use any workstation and still see the work saved to that workspace.
This method would be problematic for us where we connect to Active Directory. Changing the user's password would have to happen at that level. Many other IT policies kick in at that point that would probably prevent us from doing that.
Joe
In Reply to Don Senchuk:
The short answer is "no, an admin cannot simply check in another user's work".
However, the admin has access to the principal manager. Through that the admin can change the absent user's password, then log in as that user and check in all work.
If your config is not set to upload automatically during every save, the admin will have to sit at that user's computer to perform this.
Of course this will cause some hassle for the absent user to get his new password from the admin, then reset his password, but if the need is great enough this should be a minor concern.
I hear ya! I held a position where internal policy experssly forbid logging in as another user. Even as an admin I could not have followed the course I laid out above without fear of termination.
In those cases, if David's solution cannot be followed (though it should work) you may be SOL.
In Reply to Joe Priest:
This method would be problematic for us where we connect to Active Directory. Changing the user's password would have to happen at that level. Many other IT policies kick in at that point that would probably prevent us from doing that.
Joe
In Reply to Don Senchuk:The short answer is "no, an admin cannot simply check in another user's work".
However, the admin has access to the principal manager. Through that the admin can change the absent user's password, then log in as that user and check in all work.
If your config is not set to upload automatically during every save, the admin will have to sit at that user's computer to perform this.
Of course this will cause some hassle for the absent user to get his new password from the admin, then reset his password, but if the need is great enough this should be a minor concern.