Multiple person working on same planning area

Question

Hello,
Can anyone please suggest how multiple people can work on same planning area at the same time. We are working on implementation project and our team has to work on different planning levels in the same planning area. But locking prevents us to achieve the same.
Any ideas?
Regards

Answer 1

Hello,
Regarding the change of the Area itself, it looks logic that two person cannot change its design at the same time.
If I remember well if somebody is changing the Area, then everything is locked. But it is not the case if two person are working on separate Levels.
A very important thing (correct me if I'm wrong) is that if you have been in change mode of an Area, Level, Package, etc... in your current BPS0 session, you will still lock it untill you get out of BPS0.
Then, if in your team everybody knows on wich level they have to work and then don't go in change mode of other elements it should work (but not for the area because it contains all the subelements...).
By the way, check also <a href="http://service.sap.com/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&_EVENT=REDIR&_NNUM=635244">Note 635244 - Locking transaction data in SEM-BPS</a>:
<i>Two parameters are only designed to facilitate the Customizing process, if users
carry out Customizing in transaction BPS0 within a project.
o SEM_BPS_NO_LOCK: This parameter has the effect that transaction
data is not locked at all. Never use this parameter in a production
system. As of Support Package 14 for Release 3.1B, parameter
SEM_BPS_NO_LOCK is released by an additional switch in table
upc_dark2: For this purpose you have to maintain a record with
param = ENABLE_NO_LOCK and value = X in table upc_dark2. Only then
the system includes parameter SEM_BPS_NO_LOCK. The parameter can
then be useful if you want to test functions or the manual planning
with 'test data' in Customizing.
o SEM_BPS_SAVE_UNLOCK: This parameter only works in transaction BPS0;
it has the effect that the system unlocks data (if possible) after
it has been saved. Therefore, the system only simulates an exit and
reentry in transaction BPS0 with the last active detail
application. Therefore, the above parameter can be helpful if many
people work on Customizing in transaction BPS0, because objects can
be unlocked earlier.</i>
You can add these parmeters to a user id in the "Parameter"tab in T-Code SU01.
Best Regards,
Jeoffrey