Lock products and editions

To edit a product or an edition, you must first lock the product or edition for editing. In LCM, products and editions are called resources.

Locking a product or an edition for editing puts a lock on it so that other users cannot make changes to it. While you have the product or edition locked for editing, you can make changes and save them. When you have completed your changes, you unlock the product or edition so that others can edit it. This action saves the resource and then releases your lock so that other users can lock and edit the resource. If a product or an edition is locked for editing, the status displayed for the product or edition indicates that it is locked for editing and the option to lock the product or edition for editing is disabled.

You must lock a product to make changes to the product model, for example to add a coverage.

You must lock an edition to make changes to rules and their properties, or to add an edition.