To edit files, you check them out to your local computer. When you check out a file, Webtop locks the file in the repository so that no one else can edit it except you. Other users can view the file, but they cannot make changes to it. If you check out a file that is linked to several locations in the repository, the file is locked in all those locations.

When you check out a file, Webtop either copies or streams the file to your computer. Which occurs depends on the file’s editing application. If the file uses an external editing application, Webtop downloads the file to your checkout directory. From your checkout directory, you can open and close the file as often as you want, making and saving changes. Your modifications are not saved into the repository until you check in the file.

If the file uses an internal editing application then checking streams the file directly to your application. The file is not copied to your computer. When you save the file in the editing application, the file is saved directly to the repository. However, the file remains checked out. To unlock the file, you must check the file back in.

To check out a file, you use either the edit command or the check out command. The edit command immediately opens the file upon check out.

Webtop displays next to the files that you have locked and displays next to the files that other users have locked.

You can sort your My Files list to group together the files that you have locked. You do so either by clicking Checked Out By or by clicking the column heading.