User insade Plan Book during Core Interface

Question

Please.
Maybe somebody has the same problem.
During the Core interface run at night whe are facing some problems into the Job due users inside the Planning book.
Somebody have any solution to disable the access from the users into the Planning book in a specific time also close the Users setion that are inside the planning book.
But we have to release access only to CRONPTS user that is the CIF Runner.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

what is your CIF doing? why is it writing to a PB where users are changing values
are they changing values into the same KF
if not,
Try to make your Planning area to KF lock and set the option of "do no lock read only KF"
then  make the Kf that the CIF changes into a read only in the planning book (either in design or using a start macro)
if you cant change the above....
then
while vinods solution is elegant, if you dont have enough programming power this is what you can do
1. run a job before the CIF job runs to trigger a batch macro
this macro should set a flag in the planning books - say put value 1 in a cell somewhere in history
2. create another start macro in all your planning books which checks for this indicator - if cell =1 then make all rows output only by using the macro function row_input( ) = 0
now when the user goes into the planning book he will be in display only
3. when the CIF work is over it should release the lock by removing the KF value from that cell