On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 13:40, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:50, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On documentation.libreoffice.org, the way to check out a document is >> to navigate to the desired doc, then hover your mouse over the doc. To >> the right, a menu will appear, with an option "More" at the bottom of >> the list. Click on that and you will see at option "Edit offline". >> When you choose that option and then download the document to your >> local system, the document is indeed locked and flagged as "Editing >> started by: xxxxxxxx" (where xxxxxxx is your user name). So the >> mechanism is in fact the same, but the terminology is slightly >> different. >> >> Once again, this confusion is down to the fact that I/we need to get a >> workflow finalized, we maybe need to make a choice between the >> Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share interfaces, and then I/we need to >> get the docs team contribution documentation up to date, based on >> Jeremy's and Jean's excellent work. >> >> I'm currently consulting with Jeff Potts about this, and we'll be >> better organized shortly... (Jeremy and Samphan are in on the >> conversation)... >> > > Does "Edit Offline" make the document show up in the other view > (alfresco.libo) as locked or "editing started by" or some way of > knowing someone's working on it? I didn't think it did, but I haven't > tested this. "Edit Offline" in doc.libo doesn't seem to do that, and > perhaps whoever (I've forgotten who) was working on a file hadn't > picked the right choice in doc.libo and so an indicator didn't show up > in alfresco.libo. Sorry, I just haven't had time to do any testing to > see if I'm misremembering things... which is quite likely. > > --Jean >
OK, I was misremembering. I just tried it and it works like David said. I knew it *should* work that way, so I'm glad to see it actually does. I'm very glad to be wrong in cases like this! :-) --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
