topic Re: Locked Document in Alfresco Archive

Locked Document

s00pa — Fri, 22 May 2015 04:18:03 GMT

In Alfresco 5 I have found that if a document is locked, even if I log in as the user who owns the document or as administrator, there seems to be no way to unlock the document. In Alfresco 4 there was a button called "finish editing" or something like that but in Alfresco 5 it just says "This docum

Re: Locked Document

lolaco — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:09:04 GMT

I have the same problem too. Running in ubuntu 14.04, Alfresco Community 5.0.d and .bin installation.

Re: Locked Document

mmrvelj — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:02:08 GMT

I have the same problem. Previously you could go to /alfresco and unlock the document there. But now since UI is removed I don't see how can this be unlocked?

Does anybody has any suggestion?

Re: Locked Document

villdre — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:10:58 GMT

Guys - this is probably something you have tried already - there is a "Cancel Editing" option under "Document Actions" if you login as the user who has the document locked. See attached screenshot. Let me know if this helps.