You can unlock permanently locked content of groups in order to release them for editing for all users with the corresponding privilege. The user who locked the items and system users can remove the lock. System users have the Administrator: Unlock menu item to do so.
Prerequisite
You have the Lock permanently function privilege or are a system user.
Procedure
Click ARIS > Explorer. The Explorer tab opens.
Open the relevant database.
In the Models or Objects details view, select the groups containing locked content.
Right-click in the selection.
Click Lock/Unlock > Unlock. The Unlock groups dialog opens in which you can select objects for unlocking.
Select further groups, if necessary.
If you want to include the content of subgroups within the selected groups, enable the Include subgroups check box.
If you want to unlock the models in the groups, enable the Unlock models check box.
If you want to unlock the objects in the groups, enable the Unlock objects check box.
Click OK.
The dialog closes and the group content is unlocked.