Andrew Douglas Pitonyak ha scritto:
Fey, Jordan (PBTI) wrote:
In some departments there are spread sheets used by multiple users
throughout the day. If opening them in MS Excel, a warning is
generated stating "<filename> is locked for editing by <username>
Click notify to open a read-only copy of the document and recieve
notification when the document is no longer in use". You can then
either open in Read only mode, or in notify mode. When a similar
situation occurs in Open Office, the dicument is opened without
warning & the only way to tell is that "read only" is displayed in
the title bar. As the majority of the users within the company are
technophobes, this isn't sufficient for them & we've already lost
several hours work. Can
some one advise if i've missed something and there is a way to
display warnings about the document state or if this is something
Open Office simply cannot do?
>
> I maintain that you WANT this behavior because you will not
> accidentally over-write others changes. Not sure if you can disable
> the warning. The warning is there because most people are upset if
> they edit a document for a while and then find out that they cannot
> save it.
Andrew,
I guess the OP meant that he wants a STRONGER warning that the file is
Read-Only, not that he wants to disable this behaviour. I can see his
users ignoring the Read-Only sign in the title bar, working a few hours
on the spreadsheet, trying to save it unsuccessfully, and yelling at him
for this reason.
I can not offer a reply, only add that if you use Linux desktop the
issue is even worse: you are NOT notified that the document is already
open, you ARE ABLE to save the document and overwrite others' changes.
(BTW i love OO, i've been using it for many years, and i'm doing my best
to solve this locking issue, will post if i find anything).
--
Francesco
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