Cancel a offline edit for another user?

[#1]

Totally new to Alfresco, but liking what I have seen so far. My question is whether it is possible to cancel offline edit for another user? Scenario: I am site manager, another user checks out a file for edit but then goes away on holiday without checking file back in.

Many thanks.

[resplin]

Welcome!

If a user with administrator or site manager permissions browses to a document that is locked for editing, that user will have a "Cancel Editing" action even if the document is locked by another user.

This can also be done programmatically using the cancelCheckOut method in the Versioning Service for the content object in question. That way it can be done automatically as part of a workflow or cronjob using the public API documented here:

http://developer.alfresco.com/cloud

[#3]

Hi. Thank you for coming back to me, and apologies for not replying sooner! I use free Alfresco Cloud and I am the site manager. However, when a document is checked out by another user, I have no "Cancel Editing" action visible when I browse to the document in question in the document library!

Any ideas?