In Mac OS X (and probably Windows) there is the ability to lock files and folders. Not necessarily with a password but you can lock them and if someone wants to edit them in some way they have to unlock them first.
I'd like to have this ability within VectorWorks, i.e. I'd like to be able to lock certain aspects of our resources and templates.
In a perfect world everybody in an office would know that they shouldn't create their own classes wily nilly. And they would know that they shouldn't simply edit standard symbols but instead duplicate and rename them first. But, although I'm working on it, we don't live in a perfect world.
So there are things that I'd just like to lock down. Not neccesarily with a password, but just to create an extra step to flag up to people that "hey, there must be a reason this is locked, maybe I should ask first before changing that."
So, for instance, one thing I'd really like to lock would be the top level of the class structure. i.e I'd like to stop people from adding new top-level classes to their files. And if someone pastes in some random object with new top-level classes VectorWorks would say "Can't do that sorry, either you have to unlock the top level of classes or you need to reassign the incoming classes."
The other thing would be standard symbols. So in order for people to change certain symbols they'd either be forced to unlock it or duplicate and rename them first.
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In Mac OS X (and probably Windows) there is the ability to lock files and folders. Not necessarily with a password but you can lock them and if someone wants to edit them in some way they have to unlock them first.
I'd like to have this ability within VectorWorks, i.e. I'd like to be able to lock certain aspects of our resources and templates.
In a perfect world everybody in an office would know that they shouldn't create their own classes wily nilly. And they would know that they shouldn't simply edit standard symbols but instead duplicate and rename them first. But, although I'm working on it, we don't live in a perfect world.
So there are things that I'd just like to lock down. Not neccesarily with a password, but just to create an extra step to flag up to people that "hey, there must be a reason this is locked, maybe I should ask first before changing that."
So, for instance, one thing I'd really like to lock would be the top level of the class structure. i.e I'd like to stop people from adding new top-level classes to their files. And if someone pastes in some random object with new top-level classes VectorWorks would say "Can't do that sorry, either you have to unlock the top level of classes or you need to reassign the incoming classes."
The other thing would be standard symbols. So in order for people to change certain symbols they'd either be forced to unlock it or duplicate and rename them first.
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