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Q169279: ACC97: Error in Documenter If Object Can’t Be Checked Out

Article: Q169279
Product(s): Microsoft SourceSafe
Version(s): WINDOWS:5.0,97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbAccess kbSSafe
Last Modified: 01-MAY-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Access 97 
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, version 5.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

When you try to run the Documenter on an object that is under Source Code
Control, you may receive the following message:

  Do you want to check out '<formname>' before opening it in Design view?

If the object is already checked out by another user and you click Yes, you will
receive the following additional message:

  Unable to check out '<formname>' because it is already checked out...

  Unable to check out '<formname>'.

You then receive the following Documenter error:

  Application-defined or object-defined error.


RESOLUTION
==========

Click No when asked if you want to check out the object, and then run the
Documenter on the object. The object does not have to be checked out before you
can run the Documenter.

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Open a database you have under Source Code Control that is shared with other
  users.

2. On the Tools menu, click Analyze, and then click Documenter.

3. When the Documenter tab control appears, select any object that is already
  checked out by another user and click the object's check box. Click OK.

  NOTE: If an object is already checked out, an icon appears next to the object
  in the Database window.

4. When you receive an alert asking if you want to check out the object, click
  Yes. Note that you receive the error message mentioned in the "Symptoms"
  section.

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbAccess kbSSafe 
Technology        : kbSSafeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbAccessSearch kbAccess97 kbAccess97Search kbSSafe500
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0,97
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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