CHECKING OUT A DOCUMENT FOR EDITING (DMS USER)

Prerequisite(s): The System Administrator must have assigned you a DMS Customer role.

A document must have been uploaded to a customer folder and locked (checked-in) in the DMS folder structure.

You must have read/write privileges to this customer folder and to its documents.

 

1.   Hover your mouse over the Administration link on the menu bar.

2.   Click the Document Management sub-link from the menu bar.

3.   Navigate the DMS folder structure to the folder where you wish to edit a document by clicking each folder name link.

4.   Click the lock Lock icon in the Action column for the document to unlock or check-out the document for editing.

5.   Click the edit  icon in the Action column for the document. A temporary copy of the document is downloaded to your desktop computer for editing (see Screen Shot).

 

Note: To edit a document, the user must have the native application on his or her desktop computer.

 

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6.   After your edits to the document are complete, save the document and close the document using the native application.

 

Note: Do not save the document to a different location or you will have to specify the document’s file path when checking it back in to CapEx Manager.