Make check in comments mandatory

For IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop, you can either require that users enter comments when checking in an object or make them optional.

For example, the following diagram shows that comments are required by users:

Figure: Preset comments window


Note: You should make these configuration changes in the Test environment and test them before copying them to the Production environment. In a dedicated SaaS deployment, after testing the changes, ask IXIASOFT Customer Support to copy the changes to the Production environment.
  1. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
  2. Locate the comments.xml file in the repository's /system/conf collection.
  3. Check out the file and open it for editing.
  4. To make comments mandatory when checking in, find the <requiredComments> element and change the @onRelease attribute to true.
    For example:
    <requiredComments onRelease="true" onStatusChange="false"/>
  5. (Optional): To make comments mandatory when changing status, change the @onStatusChange attribute to true.
  6. Save, close, and check in the file.
  7. Inform users of the changes.
    The changes will be applied automatically once users close and then reopen their IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop. Users can also apply the changes without restarting their CCMS Desktop by clicking IXIASOFT CCMS > Synchronize Configuration.