Locking and Unlocking Digital Assets

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To lock or unlock digital assets, you need to have the Release Manager security role assigned to your user account. For more information, see Security Roles.

Locking a digital asset prevents further modifications to its configuration items. The configuration items are still functional, i.e. you can still use the asset's digital journeys to create new records for instance, but you can no longer edit them in Innovation Studio. This allows you to ensure compliance with your organization's application implementation workflow, for example when you wish to mark a stable version to be used for release.

When you lock a digital asset, its locked state is indicated in red in the Innovation Studio header (when the digital asset is currently set as the context digital asset):

If you wish to resume development on a locked digital asset (for instance to start working on the next release of your application), you have to unlock it. This reopens the asset's configuration items for editing and increments the digital asset's version number. The changes in the asset's state and version number are indicated in the Innovation Studio header when the asset is currently set as the context digital asset:

How to Lock a Digital Asset

  1. Log in to Innovation Studio using a user account with the Release Manger security role.
  2. From the main menu, select Configuration Management > Digital Assets.
  3. From the Digital Assets List, open the digital asset you wish to lock.
  4. In the General tab, click Lock Digital Asset.

How to Unlock a Digital Asset

  1. Log in to Innovation Studio using a user account with the Release Manger security role.
  2. From the main menu, select Configuration Management > Digital Assets.
  3. From the Digital Assets List, open the digital asset you wish to unlock.
  4. In the General tab, click Unlock Digital Asset.