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title: "Using the “Lock Monitor” Screen"
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You can access and read the **Budget Construction Lock Lookup** screen if you are unable to obtain edit access on a BC document and would like to find out who has locked the BC document for the Account you would like to budget.

![Click Lock Monitor at the bottom of the Budget Construction Selection Screen](media://917c35eb-0a81-45bc-a574-fc741db54a3e)

The **Budget Construction Lock Lookup** screen lists all Accounts and Positions currently locked by a user and the associated BC document number. See the example below.

![example of search results](media://4f1b858e-4169-4641-854c-9c356856f408)

The BC document will lock if one of the following occurs:

- The browser back button was clicked by a user while using the Budget Construction screens.
- A user clicked out of the screen.
- A user allowed a Budget Construction screen to timeout.
- A user does not use the close button on a Budget Construction screen.

> ℹ️ For more information about the close button on Budget Construction screens, see [Saving and closing a BC Document (Session Timeout and Cleanup)](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FPB/pages/10942120096).

When a user locks a BC document, an error message will be displayed at the top of the screen.

![1 error found on page. access denied, document is locked by xxx](media://a3c11646-c5fb-4c84-ad2d-7d07570c4eda)

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There are four different types of locks that may occur:

- **Account Lock:** Issued when a user displays a BC document in edit mode.
- **Funding Lock:** Issued for accounts associated with displayed funding lines where the user has edit access and is using the BC Salary Setting by Position or BC Salary Setting by Incumbent screen.
- **Position Lock:** Issued when a user either displays the BC Salary Setting by Position or the BC Salary Setting by Incumbent screen.
- **Account Transaction Lock:** Issued for each funding line when the user submits Salary Setting by Position/Incumbent change. This lock exists only during the time it takes to update the associated pending accounting lines contained in the BC document for the account.

As a reminder, only one user can work on a document at a time. If you find yourself locked out of a document, contact the user who has locked the document and request that they close their session so you can work on it. You may request a document to be unlocked by contacting the Office of Budget & Planning, but beware. Unlocking the document may cause the locked user to lose the work they have performed.  
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