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Basic Question & Scenario

sternfan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:26:56 GMT

Hi all - I've been tinkering/testing Alfresco off and on for a few days and am getting confused. I am hoping that if I explain what I am trying to do, someone can tell me if this is possible and some hints as to how to accomplish…Scenario - I have some documents that multiple users have to edit (ea

Re: Basic Question & Scenario

mrogers — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:03:33 GMT

You can't easily update the same document in parallel, that just creates a merge problem that needs to be resolved at some point.

Alfresco provides a couple of bits of functionaility that may be useful for your scenario, the first is to be able to lock a document so that only a single person can update it at a time. The second bit is workflow which can control who needs to provide what and when.

Depending upon your requirement you could have a workflow that routes a document through a set of people or groups or something more complicated with users supplying their indicidual contributions to the overall document that get merged or combined to for some sort of compound document.

Re: Basic Question & Scenario

mikeh — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:45:33 GMT

Our Google Docs integration allow you to do what you require.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Basic Question & Scenario

pavaniakella — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:32:51 GMT

Hi Mike,

I got a question in this google docs integration.
Suppose there is a document in the share. which has access to 4 people A,B,C,D.
Now A checkouts the document for editing. But when B,C,D logs into the google docs they still can access the file and still can edit.
But it should lock the Document for user A in google Docs.
How to do that?
Appreciate any help.

Regards,
Pavani