Transferring Ownership of a Catalog or Chapter

You can transfer the ownership of a catalog or a chapter or an item for many reasons. For example, when you change a job role or when a part of a design is released for the new owner to begin the work. You must have ownership rights for the catalogs or chapters or items you intend to transfer.

Required access roles:

Baseline: Leader

Before you begin:
  • Open a search result.
  • Open a catalog or a chapter in a Collaborative Lifecycle apps.
  1. Select a catalog or chapter or item of your choice.
  2. To transfer ownership of a selected catalog or a chapter or an item, select Transfer Ownership from Ownership section of the action bar.
    The Transfer Ownership dialog box appears.
  3. Enter the necessary identification parameters of the user to whom you want to transfer the chapter or the catalog or the item.
    The Summary area lists the current content of objects to be transferred.
  4. To propagate the selected catalog or the chapter or the item, you can select one of the following in the Propagation Option area:
    • Choose Selected Catalog, to transfer the ownership of the selected objects.
    • Choose Selected Catalog + Catalog Structure, to transfer the ownership of the selected objects and recursively their child objects.
    • Select the Catalog Content, to transfer the ownership of the items also under the selected objects. This option is not mandatory.

    To successfully transfer the ownership, it is advisable to select the first two propagation options.

  5. Click OK.
    The ownership is updated in the database. A successful message appears listing the objects that were transferred.
  6. Click Cancel.
    The operation is cancelled.