Kicked out of Worksets automatically?

[purvigirwin]

Question (and I'm going to start with the disclaimer that I don't agree with this workflow at all) If you closed a workshared file without relinquishing, does the file automatically relinquish after a certain amount of time? I have a customer who is doing this on purpose to prevent others from editing his files (we've discussed how creating a new central can wipe all this out...) and he's opened files a week later where the worksets were not relinquished and they have all relinquished themselves. Is there a setting that does this automatically after a certain amount of time? Could it be related to however the server is backed up? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

It's happened to me before. My workaround was to changed the username from the option. Then open the project sync and relinquish.

[Anonymous]

anyone logged in to revit under that user name will be able to relinquish - if i knew their user name i could relinquish!!. done it many times when people inadvertently fail to relinquish.

im not aware that revit ever relinquishes unless instructed....

[RobDraw]

It is a valid workflow. Many places do it to lock down certain parts of the model. Yes, it is easy enough to close the model and open it again as that user and relinquish. I use it to prevent accidental edits to key elements that could be detrimental.

[purvigirwin]

I think you misunderstood my question. I am aware of the various ways to force Revit to relinquish, but what I am asking is if it does this automatically after a certain amount of time, or if there is some automatic process, beyond a person intentionally forcing it to relinquish, that could cause a model to relinquish "on it's own," which is what seems to be happening to this customer.

[purvigirwin]

I just said that I don't agree with it, but the merits of the workflow wasn't the point of this question. I wanted to know if there is a way that Revit can relinquish without a person intentionally making it do so. I have a user who is going to use Revit this way, so my job is to help him figure out why his model is automatically checking in the worksets that he has intentionally left as checked out to him.

[Anonymous]

hahaha - no i understood the question! i am unaware of anything within revit that does this? (and hey as has been pointed out to me today - i didnt even know you can rotate project north??!!)

however there are all sorts of network settings and issues and backups etc as you rightly question. i have worked many places (on contract) and never come across this..... whenever there is an incident of - revit on its own - theres usually a human hand in there

maybe if you go into the (local) file properties you might get a clue as to ?when? it occurred (last save?) and therefore how it came about?