Microsoft KB Archive/162820

= PRB: SourceSafe/MS Access Does Not Allow Project Sharing =

Article ID: 162820

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q162820



SYMPTOMS
Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multi-user skills.

This article assumes that you are familiar with using the client and server side capabilities of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. For more information about Visual SourceSafe, please refer to the "Visual SourceSafe User's Guide" or the Help topics available from the Visual SourceSafe menu.

Visual SourceSafe allows sharing of projects among developers so that a team of individuals can make changes and share application development.

The ability to share projects is not enabled by default when you set up the server components for SourceSafe. You must explicitly enabled this functionality.

If you try to check out a project that another developer has checked out and the Allow Multiple Checkouts option has not been enabled in SourceSafe, you may receive the following error message:

File $/ is currently checked out by

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The Check Out option on the SourceSafe Integration menu may be dimmed and unavailable. This behavior indicates that the SourceSafe server application has not been configured to allow project sharing.



RESOLUTION
To allow project sharing, configure the server hosting the SourceSafe application to allow multiple checkouts.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



MORE INFORMATION
To allow project sharing, follow these steps:


 * 1) Open the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Administration Tool on the server that hosts the Visual SourceSafe database.
 * 2) Sign in with your admin password.
 * 3) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 4) Click to select the Allow Multiple Checkouts option.

NOTE: In order to apply the change, all client applications will have to be quit and restarted.

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