Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 121)

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File management
Last updated 6/3/2015
3 In the Site Setup dialog box, select the Servers category and do one of the following:
• Click the Add New Server button to add a new server
• Select an existing server and click the Edit Existing Server button
4 Specify Basic options as necessary, and then click the Advanced button.
5 Select Enable File Check Out if you are working in a team environment (or working alone but from several different
machines). Deselect this option if you want to disable file check in and check out for your website.
This option is useful to let others know that you checked out a file for editing, or to alert yourself that you may have
left a more recent version of a file on another machine.
If you do not see Check In/Out options, it means that you have not set up a remote server.
6 Select the Check Out Files when Opening option if you want to automatically check out files when you double-click
to open them from the Files panel.
Using File > Open to open a file doesn’t check the file out even when this option is selected.
7 Set the remaining options:
Check Out Name The check-out name appears in the Files panel alongside any files that are checked out; this enables
team members to communicate with the right person if a file they need is checked out.
Note: If you work alone from several different machines, use a different check-out name on each machine (for example,
AmyR-HomeMac and AmyR-OfficePC) so you’ll know where the latest version of the file is if you forget to check it in.
Email Address If you enter an e-mail address, when you check out a file, your name appears in the Files panel as a
link (blue and underlined) next to that file. If a team member clicks on the link, their default e-mail program opens
a new message with the user’s e-mail address and a subject that corresponds to the file and site name.
Check files into and out of a remote folder
After you set up the Check In/Check Out system, you can check in and check out files on a remote server using the Files
panel or from the Document window.
Check out files using the Files panel
1 In the Files panel (Window > Files), select files to check out from the remote server.
Note: You can select files in the Local or Remote view, not the Testing Server view.
A red check mark indicates that another team member has the file checked out and a lock symbol indicates that the
file is read-only (Windows) or locked (Macintosh).
2 Do one of the following to check out the file(s):
• Click the Check Out button in the Files panel toolbar.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), then select Check Out from the context menu.
3 In the Dependent Files dialog box, click Yes to download dependent files along with the selected files, or click No to
refrain from downloading dependent files. The default is to not download dependent files. You can set this option
at Edit > Preferences > Site.
Note: It’s usually a good idea to download dependent files when checking out a new file, but if the latest versions of the
dependent files are already on the local disk, there’s no need to download them again.
A green check mark appears beside the local file’s icon indicating that you have checked it out.