Relinquish elements

What it does

Relinquishes to the central model the elements you borrowed and the worksets you own, like Revit's Relinquish All Mine command: from then on your colleagues can edit them.

You choose what to relinquish: everything (elements and worksets, unless you say otherwise), only the borrowed elements or only the worksets.

Only the elements you have not changed are relinquished: the changed ones stay yours and are relinquished when you synchronize, with Synchronize with central.

How it works

1. You ask your AI to relinquish elements or worksets; it prepares the request and gets the job number right away, without being blocked.
2. BIMit checks the document and brings Revit to the front with a dialog saying what is asked: document, central model, what is relinquished and what will happen.
3. To approve, tick "I have read the request: I approve this action only" and choose "Approve: relinquish now"; "Deny" does nothing. Revit relinquishes to the central right away.
4. Meanwhile your AI follows the request with Job status and at the end gets how many elements and how many worksets were relinquished; if there was nothing to relinquish (or only changed elements), the answer says so. Until you answer, it can withdraw the request with Cancel the job.

Example requests

• "Relinquish all my elements and worksets, I'm handing the model over to Mark."
• "Relinquish only the borrowed elements and keep the worksets."
• "Relinquish my worksets."

What changes and how to undo

The content of the model does not change: what changes is who holds the elements and worksets. The relinquished ones are no longer yours and colleagues can edit them; the ones you changed stay yours until you synchronize. If you deny the request, or your AI withdraws it before you answer, nothing changes.

Relinquishing cannot be undone with Ctrl+Z: that is why it always asks for your approval in Revit.

Limits

Your AI's access level must be Team: only you raise it in Revit (Level), for a time you choose, and it goes back to the default level when that time ends and at every Revit start.

• The document must be a workshared model attached to its central: not a family, not a model opened detached, not read-only, and with no operation in progress in Revit.
• If the central is locked because a colleague is saving it, BIMit does not wait: relinquishing fails and you try again later.
• The dialog only accepts an answer given by a person: with the box ticked and after reading it; while Revit is playing a journal the request is denied.
• While the dialog is open, the other tools that use Revit answer that Revit is busy.
• Only one relinquish request at a time can wait for your answer.
• A worker Revit (opened by BIMit in the background) does not do team actions.

Parameters

Related tools

• Synchronize with central
• Save as central