Document Check-In & Check-Out

Document Locator's Check-In/Check-Out feature increases confidence that changes will not be lost.  Users can collaborate on documents, making their own individual changes to a document with full knowledge that their changes will not be overwritten or deleted. Users can also view the status of documents, and know if a document is currently checked-in and available for editing or checked-out and in use by someone else.

Check-in/check-out is a standard feature in Document Locator. Among its key benefits are:

• Improves collaboration, allowing many people to edit the same document in an organized manner without copying and pasting from multiple documents.
• Creates a document history, from which previous versions are accessible, and includes a viewable log of who made changes.
• Prevents loss of information stemming from simultaneous changes.
  
• Ensures that users make changes to the correct version.
  
• Prevents users from accidentally removing the version stored on the server.
  
• Allows others to view, but not change, a checked-out file.
  
• Lets users know which documents are checked out and by whom.