Types of locking situations 1. Concept map is locked 1. Concept map is read only 1. Concept map is locked, but concept to edit is a part of a CM locked by another user 1. Concept is viewed in the Vertex viewer 1. Concept is edited in InfoItems cockpit Lock policies 1. One is not allowed to edit concepts in a read only CM (only view properties) 1. One is not allowed to save a CM/change CM properties for a read only CM 1. One is not allowed to edit concept properties if the concept is locked by another user (or the same user has open 2 edit dialogs for the same concept in different CMs) 1. One is allowed to add relations to a concept locked by another user 1. One is allowed to edit an unlocked concept that is in a CM locked by another user 1. CMs should get a flag "dirty" if a concept in it was changed by another source (e.g. in a infoItems cockpit or VV) 1. User has to get a signs that concepts were changed 1. e.g. some symbol displayed as a concept icon 1. If user opens such a concept it has to be refreshed from the server 1. Flex-application should send "refresh"-requests periodically to get informed about changed concepts