topic Re: how to lock working copies in Alfresco Archive

how to lock working copies

vinhqchu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:39:13 GMT

Shouldn't working copies be locked to be editable only to the person who checked it out? I've come to realize that when user A checks out a document and has the working copy created on the same space, that other users can come in and edit the working copy while user A is editing it also. This is all

Re: how to lock working copies

zaizi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:04:41 GMT

In Share if you edit ms office documents online using Share point services, it locks the document while you are editing the working copy.

Re: how to lock working copies

vinhqchu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:28:26 GMT

thank you for your reply, but what about explorer? shouldn't explorer lock it also? can this be fixed?

Re: how to lock working copies

fantom18 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:50:35 GMT

Hi All,
I have the same problem, please help us.
Thank you

Re: how to lock working copies

livcg — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:25:55 GMT

Same problem here. Any suggestions on content rules or something that we can set up to work around this?

Thanks

Re: how to lock working copies

livcg — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:03:05 GMT

I discovered that in our case a document's creator was able to edit a working copy of the document even if s/he wasn't the one who checked it out. This is because in permissionsDefinitions.xml, ROLE_OWNER has a global permission giving it FullControl. If a document doesn't have an owner property, the creator property is used.

I tried to get around this by restricting the permission for ROLE_OWNER but wasn't successful. In the end, I added a content rule to add the aspect ownable to all content. This adds a blank owner property to content and removes full control from the creator. I believe another way to do it is to add the ownable aspect to the model in configuration, but I haven't tried this. I also have to think about restricting the Take Ownership ability.

Hope this helps someone else.