Changing Ownership of a file

The owner of a file is determined by one of the following:

• The user who created it and saved it to PLM.
• The user who checked it out of PLM.
• The user to whom the ownership has been transferred.
• The user who performs the Download files from PLM process on a saved and unlocked file.
• Project administrators are not the owners of all files, but they are given access to modify the files owned by users in their projects.

When you are registered as the owner of a file in PLM, you can edit the file as required while other users can view but not modify the file. You can choose to transfer the ownership to another user when the user needs to work on that file. Ownership can only be changed if the file has been saved to PLM.

After a file has been checked in (and has the status of RELEASED), it does not have a specific owner.