The team leader should be able to make changes without exclusive access. It is the team leader and if you don't know what you are doing, you should not be team leader. We use a lot of profiles and to make a change, everyone has to sign out. That's ridiculous. It's nice graphisoft is trying to prevent us from doing something stupid, but at some point you have to trust the person in charge of the project. Why not have a graphisoft person approve the changes the team leader want's to make as well? That's a ridiculous statement yes, but I find it just as ridiculous not to trust the team leader to make a change. If this is a programming issue, then maybe the items we want to edit without exclusive access should be available at sign in as well. Show a list of composits, and profiles etc, and let people sign them out to edit them.
Many Thanks, JP
John Peterson, AIA
Dalgliesh Gilpin Paxton Architects
Archicad 7-21 US
PC and iMac