Hi Tora,
although the provided document handling scenario looks to be a little
bit strange for me, opening the document readonly as Mathias has already
suggested would be the solution. In your case the documents are opened
from the file explorer. So you need probably a possibility to let office
open every file readonly by default.
In other words, there should be a possibility to configure office in the
way, that it opens the documents readonly always. If user wants to edit
the opened document, he has to switch the document to edit mode
explicitly. The feature would be a consistent part of the current
design, so please submit a new feature request to me (
m...@openoffice.org ) for this.
Best regards,
Mikhail.
PS: Please try to avoid writing words with capital letters without
necessity, this let the sentence look like a cry, such emails usually
get less attention on the list. I have now answered because we continue
the already started discussion.
On 06/19/09 14:01, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
Hi,
Please DO NOT LOCK a file when a user just loads a file.
Mikhail,
I do not want to bother you, but, ...
Please, please, make "productive office suite" more PRODUCTIVE.
Another scenario, "Locked out by a reviewer"
1. User A has created an Impress document for a meeting held this
afternoon.
2. User A sends an e-mail to her college User B to ask reviewing it.
3. User B opens the document file stored in their file server.
4. Lunch time has come and User B goes to the restaurant.
5. User A has found some errors in the document.
6. User A tries to load the document, but gets warned
"The file is locked by the User B."
7. User A calls the User B, but hears a message from B's answering
machine.
8. The meeting is arranged at 1:00pm. It is 12:30 now.
9. User A tries to call User C to ask to close User B's document.
10. User C, however, is also at the restaurant with B.
11. User A runs to User B's booth located in another building.
12. ....
I know, they are not so stupid.
But this type of scenario could be seen here and there since office
suite software products are widely used by from children to elderly
people.
The similar situation could be also observed in an elementary school,
etc.
Regards,
Tora
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