When you make offline changes to files or pages, you can (and should) employ the VTS locking scheme. This is done by first locking the resource items you intend to modify, stopping the application, making your modifications offline, then restarting the application and updating the resource items you modified.
The steps below will guide you through this process.
1. Logon to your application with a user account that has been granted all system privileges.
2. Click the "Configure" button in the Display Manager's title bar.
3. Click the "Remote Configuration" button (labeled with a key) in the Configuration Toolbox.
4. Select the resource item (page or file) to which you wish to make changes.
5. Click the "Lock Item" button to lock the resource item.
6. Close the "Remote Configuration" dialog.
7. Close the Configuration Toolbox.
8. Open the VAM.
9. Stop the remote application.
10. Make your modifications offline to the page(s) or file(s) you locked.
Note: If your modifications to the application's pages or files includes the addition of scripting code, you should compile your application prior to restarting it (i.e. click the "Compile" button in the VAM).
11. Run the remote application from the VAM.
12. Logon to the application with a user account that has been granted all system privileges.
13. Click the "Configure" button in the Display Manager's title bar.
14. Click the "Remote Configuration" button (labeled with a key) in the Configuration Toolbox.
15. Select the (first) locked resource item you modified in the "Remote Configuration" dialog's list.
16. Click the "Update Item" button. The modification to the resource item will be propagated to all workstations running the application, and the lock(s) will be released.
Note: If you are the only user to have resource items locked, you may click the "Update All" button to update all modified resource items, rather than updating them on an individual basis.
17. Close the "Remote Configuration" dialog.
18. Close the Configuration Toolbox.
VTS has also been configured to check for existing resource items that have been changed without first being locked. If the changed resource item is not locked by another workstation, VTS grants your workstation the lock. You can then use the "Remote Configuration" dialog's "Update Item" or "Update All" buttons to update the resource item. If the resource item is already locked by another workstation, VTS gives you the option to keep your changes or use the "official" version of the item.
Note: If you have specified that tags belonging to a specific area should not be loaded at startup (see "VTS Programmer's Guide: 13: Configuration Files and Variables: Config.INI [AREAS] Section Variables"), these tags will not be examined for offline changes. For offline changes to take effect, tags must have areas that are accepted by the application.