how to lock working copies

[vinhqchu]

Shouldn't working copies be locked to be editable only to the person who checked it out? I've come to realize that when user A checks out a document and has the working copy created on the same space, that other users can come in and edit the working copy while user A is editing it also. This is all through CIFS. I checked the permission of the working copy and it inherits from the parent space. This seems to be a flaw in the system. Is there a fix for this?

Regards,
Vinh Chu

[zaizi]

In Share if you edit ms office documents online using Share point services, it locks the document while you are editing the working copy.

[vinhqchu]

thank you for your reply, but what about explorer? shouldn't explorer lock it also? can this be fixed?

[fantom18]

Hi All,
I have the same problem, please help us.
Thank you

[livcg]

Same problem here.  Any suggestions on content rules or something that we can set up to work around this?


Thanks

[livcg]

I discovered that in our case a document's creator was able to edit a working copy of the document even if s/he wasn't the one who checked it out.  This is because in permissionsDefinitions.xml, ROLE_OWNER has a global permission giving it FullControl.  If a document doesn't have an owner property, the creator property is used.

I tried to get around this by restricting the permission for ROLE_OWNER but wasn't successful.  In the end, I added a content rule to add the aspect ownable to all content.  This adds a blank owner property to content and removes full control from the creator.  I believe another way to do it is to add the ownable aspect to the model in configuration, but I haven't tried this.  I also have to think about restricting the Take Ownership ability.

Hope this helps someone else.