Cancel checkout of data.dm file

Jaap,

I think the message is coming from DesignSync (a Dassault MatrixOne product), so best to ask them. There appears to be some unofficial way of adding extra arguments, using something like "cx-f" (assuming the force switch needed is "-f") but it's not that clear to me whether this actually works. I think you need to find the underlying problem first - the "x" option for ddCheckin is not documented and no guarantees that it will work.

Andrew

thanks a lot Andrew,  this works.

To give you a little bit more background on this. What I try to achieve:

In order to run some OA db checks, I need to re-reference temporarily to another Tech File. After running the checks set the Technology reference back to its original one. 

So what I did:

1. change temporarily design-sync preferences: ddAutoCtlSetVars( 0 0 2 0 )

2. change technology reference to another techfile using skill function: techSetTechLibName. The data.dm will be automatically checked-out

3. run the OA db checks

4. Cancel the data.dm check-out in order to have the original technology data back. For this I was using the SKILL command: ddCheckin(ddGetObj(Lib "" nil "data.dm") "" "c")

5. Set the design-sync preferences back to it's original settings.

As indicated earlier, the checkin command was showing following error message. What of course is understandable since I indeed made changes to the data.dm in Step2.:

\o Info (gdm): Beginning Cancel Checkout operation...
\o
\o Info (gdm): lib/data.dm : som: Error 135: Can't overwrite local changes. Use force switch.

To me, it looks like safe to use your suggested ddCheckin option