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Step 4 Check out the model

After someone sends a model to the Host Encyclopedia, you can either subset it or check out the entire model to any workstation, using Check Out A Model-unless the model is very large. For authorization to check out a model, see the model's owner or an encyclopedia administrator.

Important! Before connecting to the Host Encyclopedia (or the Client Server) for check out, ensure that Perform file transfers for encyclopedia options is selected in the Check out Model dialog. If the check box is not selected, the workstation processes the check out without performing the encyclopedia portions of the process and as a result uses the existing tranfile in the directory. You can specify this default from the workstation Toolset by selecting Options, then Encyclopedia Communications.

Remember that models and subsets are checked out to a user ID, not a workstation. On the workstation, a model is simply a directory entry. The model can be copied to another workstation and either copy can be checked in by the person who checked out the model. Be careful when copying models this way because after one of the model copies is checked in, the other cannot be checked in. The second version of the model cannot be checked in because after check in of the first version, the Host Encyclopedia has the only active copy of the model.