topic Re: Edit offline -> open as read only? in Alfresco Archive

Edit offline -> open as read only?

quimicefa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:40:54 GMT

We are getting some problems when trying to "edit offline" some files.When editing from certain users/workstations, all kind of docuements are opened as "read only". If the file is a word, excel and so on, Office shows in the tittle bar "Read Only", and does not allow to save the edited copy. If the

Re: Edit offline -> open as read only?

gronfelt — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:15:53 GMT

My first guess would be that the problem is that when you select "Edit Offline" the files are downloaded to a temp directory where the computer user doesn't have write permissions. So I'd start by looking into where the browser saves temporary files.

Re: Edit offline -> open as read only?

quimicefa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:40:15 GMT

You're right ,

I don't know why, but the user has rw permission on his own %TEMP%, but Windows is creating the temporary files with "ATTRIB +R" … I'm looking how to change this behaviour. AFAIK, this is unrelated to permissions in AD/local computer because other users can edit without this issue, and tempfiles are not being created with +R att.

Re: Edit offline -> open as read only?

quimicefa — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:20:37 GMT

Hi all,

I just tested to open a *.doc/*.docx document with the browser (IE or FF). In both cases, the document is open as readonly so this seems to be related to Office (2007?), or some patch / bug, and does nothing to do with Alfresco.

Can anyone help me on this ? I suppose that is a missconfiguration or a missing patch in Office, but is very annoying and this is causing that the "Edit offline" option doesn't work at all.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Edit offline -> open as read only?

zaizi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:18:14 GMT

See this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942392