Locking Entities

Locking an Entity is a functionality within Enrich. You can lock a certain Entity, such as a Product, or an Item, to prevent other users from editing it.

When should you lock an Entity?

A good use case for locking an Entity is if you are working on enriching the data of this Entity (for example a particular Product) during a specific time period and you want to prevent other users in your organization from making any changes to the data of that particular Product while you are working on it.

How to lock/unlock an Entity

In Enrich, do the following:

1. Open the Entity you want to lock.
   The Overview tab of the Entity opens.
   
   
   1. Click (lock) on the Entity toolbar.
      The Entity is now locked, a lock icon appears next to the Entity display name, and other users cannot edit it.

      

       

      Clicking the (lock) icon again unlocks the Entity.

       

      Other users cannot unlock Entities that you have locked unless they have admin rights. Once an Entity is locked, it will remain locked until an admin or the user who locked the Entity unlocks it.

       

      Non-admins can only unlock Entities from inside Enrich. This needs to be done manually for each locked Entity. A quick way to do this is to run a Query for all Entities that you have locked and then turn your tasks into a to-do list for your clocked Entity Query.

Unlocking Entities as an admin

As an administrator, you can see all Entities that have been locked in Control Center > Locks.

Locks allows you to see a list of all locked Entities, the display description of each locked Entity, and information on the user who locked it. From there admins can select any Entities and use Unlock Selected  to unlock them.

Further reading

Locks

Locking entities

Permissions