When you create a Requirements Interchange Format definition, you select the data that
you want to lock in your database when you export the definition. The data that is locked in your
database can be edited by anyone who imports the definition. Those edits can be sent back to you to
be merged into your database.
The following options are available:
- Lock all data
- All the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can edit all the data in the module. Any updates in the remote
database can be imported and merged with the local module.
Note: If you select this option, the
Include data in view field is unavailable.
Do not use this option if
the module contains any sensitive information. You cannot prevent it from being included in the
definition.
- If you select this option, you cannot include any layout DXL in the definition.
- Lock objects
- The selected objects in the module in the local database are locked.
- Users in the remote database can modify the specified objects and add new objects.
- Updates to the specified objects in the remote database can be imported and merged with the
local module.
- Updates to any other objects are not merged with the local module.
- Lock attributes
- The selected attributes in the module in the local database are locked.
- Users in the remote database can modify the specified attributes.
- Updates to the specified attributes in the remote database can be imported and merged with the
local module.
- Updates to any other attributes are not merged with the local module.
- If you soft-delete or purge objects in the remote database, the deletions and purges are ignored
when you merge with the local module.
- No locks
- None of the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can edit all the data in the module. However, any updates to the
data in the remote database cannot be merged with the local module.
- No locks. Exported data is read-only
- None of the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can only view the data in the module.