topic Unable to cancel offline checkout in Alfresco Archive

Unable to cancel offline checkout

vijays — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:58:30 GMT

Greetings:We are running an instance of Alfresco Community Edition on CentOS server (More setup details at the end).One of our users had checked out a file for editing offline and is now unable to cancel the checkout (or upload a newer version to complete the process). I have logged in as the admin

Re: Unable to cancel offline checkout

jpotts — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:55:46 GMT

Welcome to the Alfresco community, we are glad you are here.

I have seen this happen before and I was surprised that I was able to use CMIS to unlock the document. It may not work in your case, but it might be worth a try. Is downloading the OpenCMIS Workbench, the OpenCMIS Java library, or the cmislib Python library an option for you? If so, try using one of those tools to grab a handle to the document, then call cancelCheckout().

If you need help doing that, post here which tool you decide to go with and I'll walk you through it.

Jeff

Re: Unable to cancel offline checkout

vijays — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:51:30 GMT

Jeff, many thanks for your quick response.

Infact, I have just been trying to use OpenCMIS workbench to delete the object. I have been able to connect to my repository and access my files. But the "cancel checkout" or "delete" operation fails.

Have attached some screenshots for your reference. Any suggestions on what I might be missing?

Thanks
Vijay

Re: Unable to cancel offline checkout

vijays — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:54:53 GMT

Phew..
This is what I did (just in case it helps someone):
1. Open 'share', navigate to the 'site' and to the specific document and click on the document link to get to the preview page
2. Click on "view original document"
3. Click on "delete"
4. Done!

Cheers!