Diagram protection

When you are working on a project with your team members, you probably don't want your work be modified by others by mistake. To protect your work, you can lock your current diagram with password to make it uneditable by others.

Locking diagram

1. To lock a diagram which you don't want it to be modified by others, right click on the diagram's background and select Diagram Content > Lock ... from the pop-up menu.
   

   Perform lock

2. Enter your password in the pop-up Lock dialog box and then click OK button. For your safety, always keep your password secret.
   

   Enter password

   Your diagram is then locked.
   

   NOTE:

   Lock by password: If you check this option, you need to set password for locking diagram. If you uncheck it, you don't have to enter password but you can still lock the diagram. Save password: You can save your password in the project under your user account by checking this option. Thereafter, you don't have to enter password when you edit the diagram. Otherwise, you need to enter password to edit the diagram after you uncheck it. Show password: Check this option to reveal the password. The password will be hidden by asteriks when you keep it unchecked.

Trying to edit a locked diagram

If your team members want to modify any model elements of the locked diagram, they need to provide the password set by you in the pop-up Authorization Required dialog box in order to proceed modification.

Require to enter password to proceed editing

If you try to modify any model elements of the locked diagram, an Authorization Required dialog box will prompt out. Click Remove Lock button if you want to unlock the diagram permanently while click Unlock button if you want to unlock it temporarily.

Unlock the diagram

Moreover, you can also unlock the diagram permanently in Configure Lock dialog box. Right click on the diagram's background and select Diagram Content > Configure Lock... from the pop-up menu. Choose Remove lock and enter password.

Removing lock

You can remove the lock or change the password after you lock the diagram.

1. Right click on the diagram's background and select Diagram Content > Configure Lock... from the pop-up menu.
   

   Configure lock

   NOTE:

   Configure Lock... option is available on the pop-up menu only after you have locked the diagram.

2. In Configure Lock dialog box, choose Change password if you want to change the current password and set a new password; otherwise, choose Remove lock if you want to remove the lock permanently. Click OK button to confirm.
   

   Remove lock