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.