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

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