Please Note! Avoid purging edit lock-ups for active records. Only delete the ones that are "left-overs" after for example a power failure. Check the edit lock-up's date and user in the table for each respective register!Why Use This Procedure?
The Purge Edit Lock-up window can be used to delete edit lock-ups that have been created and may still remain for users on records in your registers.
Edit lock-ups for individual records are applied to all of the procedures in the system that update registers. This means that if a user has opened a record for editing, such as a part in the Preparation procedure, no other user can open that same part in any other editing procedure. If they try, a message will appear indicating that this record (also known as entry, post, item) is being used by another user. Neither can the same user edit the same part in two different procedures. The user in question will then receive a message saying that the record is already being edited in another window.
The edit lock-up is made as a protection for the database so that different changes can not be carried out at the same time for the same record. An example of some registers in which the records are protected with the edit lock-up feature are: Part, Customer, Supplier, Quote, Customer order, Purchase order and Invoice registers.
Normally an edit lock-up for e.g. a part is removed when the user exits the procedure in question or if he/she loads another part. If the procedure with the part open is not closed in the normal way, for instance if there is a computer crash or a power failure, then the edit lock-up will remain for the part and it can not be opened again. If the user re-starts MONITOR any remaining edit lock-ups will be purged automatically.
If the user has not re-started MONITOR the system administrator can use this procedure to remove these edit lock-ups.
Things to Keep in Mind when Purging Edit Lock-ups
You can purge remaining edit lock-ups while the system is running. It is not necessary for other users to exit the system when you run this procedure.
Please Note! Avoid purging edit lock-ups for active records. Only delete the ones that are "left-overs" after for example a power failure. Check the edit lock-up's date and user in the table for each respective register!
Window Functions
Read more about the Window functions under Window Functions in the MONITOR Basics.