When you create a RIF definition, you select the data that
you want to lock in your database when you export the definition.
The data that is locked in your database can be edited by anyone who
imports the RIF definition. Those edits can be sent back to you to
be merged into your database.
The following options are available:
- Lock all data
- All the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can edit all the data in the module.
Any updates in the remote database can be imported and merged with
the local module.
Note: If you select this option, the Include
data in view field is unavailable.
Do not use this
option if the module contains any sensitive information. You cannot
prevent it from being included in the RIF definition.
- If you select this option, you cannot include any layout DXL in
the RIF definition.
- Lock objects
- The selected objects in the module in the local database are locked.
- Users in the remote database can modify the specified objects
and add new objects.
- Updates to the specified objects in the remote database can be
imported and merged with the local module.
- Updates to any other objects are not merged with the local module.
- Lock attributes
- The selected attributes in the module in the local database are
locked.
- Users in the remote database can modify the specified attributes.
- Updates to the specified attributes in the remote database can
be imported and merged with the local module.
- Updates to any other attributes are not merged with the local
module.
- If you soft-delete or purge objects in the remote database, the
deletions and purges are ignored when you merge with the local module.
- No locks
- None of the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can edit all the data in the module.
- Any updates in the remote database can be imported and merged
with the local module.
- No locks. Exported data is read-only
- None of the data in the module in the local database is locked.
- Users in the remote database can only view the data in the module.
- Any updates to the data in the remote database cannot be merged
with the local module.