How to remove the locked status from items in Joomla 2.5

Site Maintenance Global Check-in Joomla 2.5

Component packaged with Joomla! 2.5 Core allows Administrators to "check-in" or unlock items currently "locked" or in-use by other users.

How to access

Select Site → Maintenance → Global Check-in from the drop-down menu of the Joomla! Administrator Panel.

 

Description

Selecting this menu option allows Joomla! administrators to perform a global check-in of all currently pending or locked items. It then shows the results of the Global Check-in. This is useful, for example, if an Article is locked by a User who opened it for editing and never finished the editing session. In this case, other Users are not able to edit this Article. Performing a Global Check-in releases all such items.

How to remove the locked status from items in Joomla

When an Article or other Item is not properly closed in Joomla Administration it leaves a Locked status for Others users and Current user as well.

To remove all these locks in one click go to Joomla Admin

And Click Tools -> Global Check-in 

as shown below

You will see a list of items from which locked status have been removed.

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What do I do to remove the lock from an article?

When you are editing an article, if you ever click on your back button on your browser instead of clicking 'Close' or 'Save', this will lock your article. You'll see a padlock icon next to the article and you may not be able to open it anymore.

You shouldn't use the back button to close an article, but rather use your 'Save' or 'Close' buttons. To remove the lock on an article, simply go to Tools>Global Checkin.

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