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Context

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.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the relevant editor.
  2. Open the context menu of the editor and choose Unlock.

    Alternatively, you can use the toolbar Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Unlock End of the navigation path from the menu or choose the Unlock function in the Project Explorer.

Results

The locked decorator is removed from the editor tab and the corresponding item in the Project Explorer.

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