Enable a feature that allows user to view the workspace (either as an image before you open it - like Windows) or by opening the workspace in View only model. When editing is required, a license is checked out. Not a money spinner for Safe (!), but would allow users to check logic/undertake basic QA without checking out a production license.
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Thanks for sharing
I would love to understand more about “allow users to check logic/undertake basic QA” or other scenarios this might occur. For you or anyone else coming to this idea, a few quick questions to elaborate.
- Tell me about the last time you opened a workspace with the intent to just view it, not edit in any way or run.
- What prompted you to open it?
- What did you end up doing once it was open?
- In the past month, roughly how many times have you done this?
- Is there anything that would have meant you didn't need to open it at all?
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Hi
Tell me about the last time you opened a workspace with the intent to just view it, not edit in any way or run. -
- What prompted you to open it? we have a set of project workspaces where I am the principle author, but have a colleague who adjusts it, he sometimes has issues so I look at the workspace and let him know what he needs to adjust. It would also be useful from a screen sharing perspective - it’s hard to review large workspaces over Teams, so it would be good to be able to simultaneously open it to review it on a call but not make actual changes.
- What did you end up doing once it was open? So, I review it, then tell a colleague what he needs to tweak, may be a setting or rule. There’s an upskilling piece, I don’t make the change, I advise someone what they need to do, or ask them to review/adapt a transformer
- In the past month, roughly how many times have you done this? - at least weekly
- Is there anything that would have meant you didn't need to open it at all? - not sure how to answer this