Preventing unresolved references
When you delete an element that has references in read‑only files, those references cannot be updated accordingly on the disk because the files are read-only files. These references become unresolved when the model is reloaded. In order to resolve this situation, read‑only files that contain references to elements that you are deleting is made writable before you perform the delete operation.
About this task
IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody® automatically opens the References in Read‑Only Files Encountered window when it detects that an attempt to delete an element might cause unresolved references. When you delete an element (for example, through the model browser or a graphic editor) that has references in read-only files, the References in Read‑Only Files Encountered window opens with a list of read-only files that contains references to the deleted element.
The following options are available to you on this window:
- Check out the selected and continue. Use only if you have a configuration
management tool set. Note: This option might fail if the unit you are trying to check out is not already checked in.
- Make the selected files read/write and continue
- Ignore the references in read‑only files and continue. Using this option means that unresolved references might be created when the model is reloaded.