Lock/Unlock Prices

You can lock or unlock a specific vendor record. You select the record you want to lock or unlock and then you lock the vendor price or vendor price and associated gold copy price. Locked prices are unable to be overwritten, edited, or copied.  

To lock prices by gold copy or vendor prices:

1. In the Reference Desk workspace, click Prices in the left navigation.
   You see the Prices workspace with all the available price records.
2. Click the View Data By drop-down and select Vendor Prices or Gold Copy prices from the drop-down list.
3. From the Date drop-down list, select Effective Date or Process Date and then click the Calendar icon and select a date.
4. Select any additional search criteria and then click the Search button.
   You see a list of price records based on the criteria you selected.
5. Select the price record you want to lock and from the right-click menu select Lock/Unlock Prices >Lock/Unlock Price.
6. Select one of the following options:
   –   Lock Gold Copy Price only.
   –   Lock Gold Copy Price & Vendor prices.
7. Click Lock.
   The price record has been locked.