Locking the manifest of an exhibit has few affects that protect an exhibit from accidental changes. The first being that the manifest containing exhibit-specific settings, statuses, and controls will be “locked” in the Gumband services. This means that that changing the manifest.json file for a locked exhibit will not affect the exhibit’s manifest in the Gumband database. The second feature is that an exhibit with a locked exhibit can not be deleted from Gumband.
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