Once created, custom libraries can be reused by others. If you work on a network, you can save your custom library to a network folder.
Right-click the custom library node you want to save and choose Save as from the context menu.
Choose a network folder, enter MyLibForCommonUse in the File name edit field, and click Save.
The MyLibForCommonUse custom library is now active in your Library Browser. The library is locked by you.
Right-click the custom library node and choose Close to give another user full access to the new custom library.
On the Library ribbon, click Custom Library - Open Custom Library to open the dialog.
Navigate to your working folder, select the UsingBasicElementsLib.adlx file and click Open.
The UsingBasicElementsLib custom library that you created in this lesson is displayed in the Library Bowser again.
You created the MyLibForCommonUse custom library that can be opened by others. You reopened the UsingBasicElementsLib Custom Library to proceed with it in the next lesson.
If you want to protect the copied custom library against editing, you can set the read‑only attribute in the file system for all files that belong to the custom library.
There are further options for working with custom libraries:
You can set your custom library under version control.
You can export and import custom libraries as archives of ZIP file type.
You can export and import custom libraries in XML format.
For a summary of the lesson's exercises, refer to Results of Lesson 4.