SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Checking out publishing content for editing

Checking out an item in SharePoint provides the user with an exclusive lock to prevent the editing of that item. This prevents multiple users from making modifications at the same time. In this recipe, we will check out the publishing page we created in the Creating a publishing web part page recipe.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to check out a publishing page:

1. Navigate to the SharePoint list or library that contains the item to be checked out in your preferred web browser.

   Tip

   In our example, we will be using the Pages library and the publishing page we created in the Creating a publishing web part page recipe.

2. Select the item by clicking on the checkmark on the item.
3. Select Check Out from the FILES