Download, Check Out, Check In and Discard Checkout

• Download allows user to save a DocCare2 document to his local disk. If you have applications installed to open the corresponding document, you also can open the document directly. Download can also be regarded as ‘Read’.
• Check Out is to get a copy of a document from DocCare2 repository that can be worked on. In DocCare2, the check-out operation is exclusive. If a user checks out a document out, other users can no longer check out this document. So that they are unable to check in this document.
• Check In is to return the modified document to DocCare2. Only the user who checked out the document can check it in.
• Discard Checkout is to abandon the checkout status of a document. When someone checks out a document, other people are unable to update (check out then check in) this document because the checkout operation is exclusive. If someone else needs to update this document for a urgent reason, he may discard the checkout status of this document. When he discard the checkout status of this document, he can check it out.