Lock and unlock clauses
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Leader, Authors and contributors
Locking a clause
The Online Collaborative Authoring has been designed so that multiple people can edit the same document at the same time without getting in each other's way.
This means that no one else can edit the clause at the same time, and other users will see (in read-only mode) the clause as it was before you started editing it.
Clauses locked by others
Please note
Clause 2 Normative references and the Bibliography are locked for editing to all users. See Add references in the normative references & bibliography clauses for further details.
Unlocking clause(s)
To unlock a (sub)clause you have locked, simply click on the green padlock icon you see on the top-left corner of the particular (sub)clause.
Unlock all my clauses
To unlock all (sub) clause(s) locked by you, click on the Menu, and select Unlock all my clauses.
Unlock clauses of other contributors (LEADER only)
Unlock one clause
To unlock a clause locked by another contributor, click on the tree dots menu and select Release lock.
Unlock all clauses
To unlock all (sub) clause(s) in the document, click on the Menu, and select Unlock all clauses. This features unlock all the clauses of the document.
Please note
This feature is only available to Committee and WG officers (LEADERS) and no notification are sent to the users.
