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When you are working with Designer and you create new packages, you can only modify the package in the project that created the package. Luckily, Designer allows you to use subversion, so you can share the project, resulting in all connected designer instances to share the same project, and thus being able to 'own' the same packages.

But what if you do not have subversion, or you are at a client that does not allow access to your subversion repository? In this case, you can import the custom packages, but you are unable to modify the content of the package or create a new version of this package. You can only copy a specific version to a new package, breaking your package structure.

This Designer extension allows you to mark a package (any package!) as 'Local', thus allowing you to create a new version of your package or add new content to the package.

Note: only use this on packages that you are actually owning. If not, the vendor of the package might release a conflicting version (and then you'll have a mess to clean up).

Installation:

1. Unzip the attached file to the Designer 4 'plugins' folder, resulting in the following folder structure:
   

   [Designer root]\plugins\info.vancauwenberge.idm.1.0.0

2. (Re)start designer, making sure your project is in 'developer' mode.
3. If you right-click on a locked package, you should have an additional menu item: ”Mark as 'Local'”.
4. Selecting this menu item, will request a confirmation of your action. Pressing 'OK' will unlock the package, allowing you to create a new version.

Note: this plugin also adds a log viewer to you packages: right click on any package and select “View changelog”. This is a log of the package as defined by the actions created by Novell.

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.