As soon as you start to edit a development object in the Developer Studio, the corresponding editor is locked so that contents cannot simultaneously be changed by other users.
In the Developer Studio, the status is displayed as "locked", with a decorator, both in the Project Explorer and on the editor tab:
Indication in the Project Explorer: | |
Indication in the ABAP source code editor: |
This kind of editor lock is lifted implicitly for the respective object as soon as you have closed the editor.
In certain use cases, however, it can happen that you would like to explicitly remove the existing lock in the editor for the object concerned in order to allow changes by another user for a short time, for example.
The locked decorator is removed from the editor tab and the corresponding item in the Project Explorer.