topic Re: Read Only for Collaborator in Alfresco Archive

Read Only for Collaborator

cfe — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:42:51 GMT

Hello, i am experiencing the following problem: Over the Networkshare a user (A) uploaded an office-document. Then another user (B) trys to edit the document. On saving, Word / Excel replies the Document was "read only" (or some other restriction, depending on format type). Both have collaborator-ri

Re: Read Only for Collaborator

cfe — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:50:14 GMT

Ok, an update:

I eleminated passthru from my authentication chain but that didnt change anything.

I tried out the same scenario over WebDAV and it works quite fine.

I am not sure if there's a link to:
http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1494
or
http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1893

greetings,
Chris

Re: Read Only for Collaborator

cfe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:31:20 GMT

Hello,

the Problem changed.
Now anyone below Coordinator cannot even open the Document via CIFS.

anyone?

greetings
Chris

Re: Read Only for Collaborator

cfe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:29:28 GMT

Finishing the monologue…

Origin of that Problem seems to be a Bug with MS Office 2007 (as to be found here: http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-2028).
Obviously Office-Docs are deleted and saved under a new name when edited.
As an ordinary Collabortator doesn't have deletion-rights on documents of other Users, a save (and presumely also the opening of the file) results in a permission denial.

Workaround: Collaborator gets Deletion-Rights.
And it seems to work!

Any thoughts on that workaround?

greetings
Chris