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About Access Rights and Locks on Subprojects (Microsoft Project)

Access rights and locks control subproject access. When you open a master project from CA Clarity PPM in Microsoft Project, the access rights and locks are verified in all subprojects. The following are verified:

• Insufficient access rights to open the subproject as read-only. If you do not have sufficient rights to the subprojects, you cannot open a master project. A message appears informing that you have insufficient rights to the subprojects.
• Insufficient access rights to open the subproject as read/write, but sufficient access rights to open it as read-only. If you try to open a master with subprojects as read/write when you only have read-only access rights, a message appears. If you have sufficient access rights, you can opt to open the subprojects as read-only.
• Unable to acquire a lock because another user locked the project. If you open a master project with subprojects (locked by another user) as read/write, a message appears prompting to open them as read-only.
• Unable to acquire a lock because the project is already locked. If you open a master with subprojects (that you have locked) as read/write, you are prompted to reacquire the lock. You must also rollback the projects to their current versions in CA Clarity PPM.

Note: If you have the subproject already open as read/write in Microsoft Project, this version is used instead of opening another version from CA Clarity PPM.