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Unlocking an item by taking ownership

Clicking a locked item may reveal a message: "This item contains changes that are not yet published". This means that modifications made by you and/or other users are waiting to go into workflow and will not be published until that Workflow Process finishes. To edit it, you need to explicitly take ownership of all changes thus far.

Procedure

  1. Check the dialog to find out the following information:
    • How many unpublished changes the item contains
    • Which user last changed the item

    Based on the information, you can conclude one of the following:

    • If the item was changed 1 time and by you, you can take ownership: all unpublished changes to this item are yours.
    • If the item was changed more than once, and you changed it last, one or more other users may have made changes to the item too. Take ownership only if you want to be responsible for those other changes.
    • If the item was changed more than once, and another user changed it last, one or more other users definitely made changes to the item. Take ownership only if you want to be responsible for those other changes.
  2. If you want to take ownership of the item, click Take ownership and edit.
    You have now taken ownership of all unpublished changes to the item. This also means that if you discard changes (by selecting Cancel Editing or Undo Check-out), Experience Manager discards all unpublished changes to the item, including those made by other users before you.