Hi Tora,
The current design is quite easy, if a document is opened read-only it
is not locked. If document is opened for editing it is locked.
I must confess, I do not quite understand which scenario do you expect
from me. Actually we have discussed scenario you have provided, and I
have only suggested a possible solution for it. It would help in the
scenario you have described, since to edit document the user would have
to explicitly switch to edit mode using "Edit" button:
Another scenario, "Locked out by a reviewer"
1. User A has created an Impress document for a meeting held this
afternoon.
2. User A sends an e-mail to her college User B to ask reviewing it.
3. User B opens the document file stored in their file server.
4. Lunch time has come and User B goes to the restaurant.
5. User A has found some errors in the document.
6. User A tries to load the document, but gets warned
"The file is locked by the User B."
Best regards,
Mikhail.
On 06/22/09 08:09, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
Hi Mikhail,
Mikhail Voytenko wrote:
although the provided document handling scenario looks to be a little
bit strange for me, opening the document readonly as Mathias has
already suggested would be the solution. In your case the documents
are opened from the file explorer. So you need probably a possibility
to let office open every file readonly by default.
Could you provide us with a user scenario using a possible solution
"opening all documents readonly by default"?
case A) a single user handling an existing document file; when the
file gets locked and when unlocked?
case B) two users sharing one document file in a file server and one
user editing it
case C) multiple users sharing one document file in a file server and
some users unexpectedly editing it simultaneously
case D) File - Save As, previous one unlocked and new one locked,
become readonly?
case E) Starting with an empty file (couldn't be readonly) and File -
Save, become readonly, locked?
...
I have been trying to imagine that, and found it is hard for me.
In other words, there should be a possibility to configure office in
the way, that it opens the documents readonly always. If user wants
to edit the opened document, he has to switch the document to edit
mode explicitly. The feature would be a consistent part of the
current design, so please submit a new feature request to me (
[email protected] ) for this.
PS: Please try to avoid writing words with capital letters without
necessity, ...
Thank you for the suggestion. I will keep it in mind.
Best Regards,
Tora
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