madcap flare red check box next to filename

[TechWriter85]

Hello.

IN the Content Explorer, when I click the blue folder icon and the pane splits into two panes, and the filenames are listed in the right pane, the check box next to one of the filenames is now red. I would like to know the significance. I remember hearing this in a training video, but I am not about to sit through x number of minutes of video hoping to find the explanation.

I'm a little disappointed that I have just searched for the words I've used in the title of this post without finding a clear hit. I get a dozen hits, none of them pertaining to this exact reality, which is obvious and unmistakable on my screen in front of me. I will be curious to know where this topic is treated in the avalanche of Flare online resources, and how it is indexed.

Can someone please tell me the significance of the red check box?

Thank you for your help.

[richt]

You'll see a similar red check mark (tick) if you have access to the Source Control tab in your project:

Flare_sourceControl.png

The red tick means that you've Checked Out this file - no-one else who has access to this project can edit that file now, because you've reserved it for yourself. Once you've made your edits, you need to Check In the file again so that others are free to work on it.

People who work on Flare projects independently, especially on "local" projects (saved on their own computer rather than a network drive) don't often use Source Control, which is why finding information on it isn't so easy.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control

[NorthEast]

The square box next to the topic shows the conditions that are applied to that topic - you can set the colour of each condition, so presumably you have a condition that's red.

Edit: In Richt's reply above, you can see that the topics have conditions with orange, green and blue colours.

[TechWriter85]

Thank you both very much! I appreciate your help.