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shishank_mathur
shishank_mathur
February 14, 2017
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AEM 6.1 - Unlocking a page

  • February 14, 2017
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Hello All,

Based on documentation, it seems like a page locked by a user can either be unlocked by same user or by an administrator.[1]

Is there a way to allow group of users (who do not have administrative privileges) have this facility?

Thanks

[1] https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/author/page-authoring/editing-content.html#Locking a Page - Classic UI

"Locking a page should be used with care as the only person who can unlock a page is the person who locked it (or an account with administrator privileges)."

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Best answer by maruthid1

Jitendra,

Some of the use cases like. Power users from content authors feel they need to have ability to unlock the pages locked by other users (could be users are located in different time zones and an urgent change/publish required on that page.). Unless they are System Administrator they cannot unlock.

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Ratna_Kumar
Ratna_Kumar
Level 10
February 14, 2017

Hi Shishank,

Yes, As Scott stated, there is no way of unlocking the pages from other groups.
Only administrator or a person who locked the page can only unlock the page.

~ Ratna.

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maruthid1
Level 2
February 14, 2017

One option is create a custom utility and use admin session to unlock the page. You can access control this utility to the specific group.

Jitendra_S_Toma
Jitendra_S_Toma
Level 10
February 14, 2017

maruthid1@gmail.com wrote...

One option is create a custom utility and use admin session to unlock the page. You can access control this utility to the specific group.

 

I don't see any point in doing so. 

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maruthid1Accepted solution
Level 2
February 14, 2017

Jitendra,

Some of the use cases like. Power users from content authors feel they need to have ability to unlock the pages locked by other users (could be users are located in different time zones and an urgent change/publish required on that page.). Unless they are System Administrator they cannot unlock.

shishank_mathur
shishank_mathurAuthor
February 15, 2017

Thanks everyone ! 

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venkateswarara4
May 22, 2018

HI. In my local, I logged in as admin(part of administrator group). But Cant able to unlock of  asset which locked by other user.

Please let me know if I missed any thing. thanks.

-Venkat

arunpatidar
Community Advisor
arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
Community Advisor
May 22, 2018

Hi Venkat,

you need to go to content explorer and admin will be able to unlock from there

http://localhost:4502/crx/explorer/browser/index.jsp

Arun Patidar
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surabhid2471036
Level 2
September 10, 2018

can a page locked by one user be unlocked by other user?

kautuk_sahni
Community Manager
kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
Community Manager
September 10, 2018

Locking a page can be performed when impersonating a user. However a page locked in this way can only then be unlocked as the user who was impersonated or a user with administrator privileges. Pages can not be unlocked by impersonating the user who locked the page.

Also, person who locked the page can unlock it. But, Admin user can do this.

See:- How to unlock a locked page

Kautuk Sahni
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surabhid2471036
Level 2
September 10, 2018

I mean, if we have custom admin group(except super administrator) who needs to unlock the page locked by author group. So what permissions we need to give to admin group to unlock?

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