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You can set the status of a budget, financing plan or cost control set, lock it and unlock it.
Open the budget in Budgeting. The same steps work for the open financing plan in Financing and the open cost control set in Cost Control. What each status means and what a lock stops is in [what status and lock mean](/kb/article/what-status-and-lock-mean).
In the left rail, under the grand total, click the status after **Status:** and choose **Final**, **Working**, **Snapshot** or **Archived**. KOSMA sets the status as soon as you choose it.
Open the same dropdown and choose **Lock** below the line. KOSMA locks the budget and shows . When you point at it, KOSMA shows:
This dataset is locked. Unlock it to make changes.
The lock applies to this budget only. You lock its financing plans and cost control sets in their own modules, each with its own **Lock**.
Open the dropdown after **Status:** and choose **Unlock**. KOSMA unlocks the budget. You can also click . KOSMA opens **Locked**:
This dataset is locked, so nobody can change its content. Anyone who can edit it can unlock it again.
Click **Unlock**. KOSMA unlocks the budget and closes **Locked**.
If someone made a cost control set from the budget, KOSMA still shows  after **Unlock**, and clicking it opens **Locked Budget**. Why, and what **Unlock for Correction** does, is in [what status and lock mean](/kb/article/what-status-and-lock-mean).
**Change the status in the Budgets Manager.** Click **Manage Budgets** in the budget dropdown. In the **Budgets Manager**, click the **Status** cell of a budget and choose a status. This dropdown has no **Lock** or **Unlock**. KOSMA does not offer the dropdown for a budget that is not on this computer, or for one whose cell shows **Not uploaded** (see [how your work is saved and synced](/kb/article/how-your-work-is-saved-and-synced)). If someone else is changing the same budget in the **Budgets Manager**, or if the budget is shared and you have no connection, KOSMA closes the dropdown again and shows a message.
In the managers **Financing Plans** and **Cost Control Sets**, **Status** is text only. **Cash Flow Plans** has no **Status** column. Change the status of a financing plan or cost control set in its left rail, as in step 1.
A cash flow plan has no status of its own. Its left rail shows the status of the budget or cost control set the plan takes its expenses from, and the status of its financing plan. The status is text only. When you click the name of the budget, cost control set or financing plan, KOSMA opens it in its module, where you change its status.
**If the status shows as text only.** You cannot change the status or the lock. This is the case if the budget is shared with you as **Can view**, if your licence is **Free** (also after the trial ends) or does not cover the module, if you are not signed in, or if you own the project and a guest has not shared the budget with you. It is also the case while someone else is editing a shared budget, and in a project that is archived because its owner's account is inactive. See [what your licence includes](/kb/article/what-your-licence-includes).
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