A commonly asked question from SOLIDWORKS PDM  admins and PDM users is how to release a file checked out by another user, e.g., the checked out user is on vacation, a previous employee is no longer with the company, a file is checked out on a computer which is no longer accessible, or a variety of other reasons why a local vault view is not accessible. 

Prior to PDM 2018, users could undo checkout of their own files, and the default ‘admin’ user was the only user account which could undo checkout of files checked out by other users. Starting with PDM 2018, a new administrative permission was added ‘Can undo check out of files checked out by other user’ to grant permissions to allow users other than admin to undo checkout from any user.