Lock Serial

Explanation

This activity is used to lock a serial and its belonging structure. When a serial is locked, you cannot perform any changes to the serial in the system, except for the completion of running maintenance events. You can view information on locked serials. Following is a list of operations that cannot be performed on a serial that is locked:

Prerequisites

System Effects

Window

Serial Structure Information

Related Window Descriptions

Serial Structure Information/General
Serials

Procedure

  1. Open the Serial Structure Information window and query (F3) for the necessary serial. 
  2. Click the General tab.
  3. Right-click on the tab, point to Status, and then click Lock.
  4. Observe that the Locked check box is selected automatically. In the Consist Of and Multilevel tabs, the Locked for Update check box will be selected for the belonging serials in the structure.