reminders would be good during the day, but most of our staff does not check email out of the office.
I'm looking at docs that people check out then abandon if they forget and go home without checking it back in. If someone has it open and is working on it I don't want them kicked out. not going to be easy at any rate. ----------------- Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 13:42, Kevin Lundy <klu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just being devils advocate here ... if you don't care about saving their > work and they can merge documents later, why are you forcing a checkout? > The idea behind checkout is to prevent 2 people from modifying the same file > and over writing someone else's changes. > > FYI, I don't think check in would be an easy work flow. An easier one > might be reminders - kick off work flow when document checked out, sleep 30 > minutes. Document checked in, die. Document still checked out, send email > reminder (or OCS message), sleep 30. > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:16 PM, S Powell <powe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> oh good idea, workflow, hmm need to look into that. >> >> yes, we have this issue all the time. Bob will check out a document then >> leave for the day, and Alice wants to work on it, and she has to find me to >> kick Bob out of it. >> >> I don't care about saving their work. They can merge the documents later. >> I just want them to get in, work and get out. >> >> >> >> >> ----------------- >> Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? >> >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:09, Kevin Lundy <klu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Not within Sharepoint natively. There may be 3rd party tools. >>> >>> I haven't considered it, but you could possibly write a work flow to do >>> it. Although, like the admin check in, that would really just clear the >>> "checked out" status, it would not check in (save) the document from the >>> users work station. >>> >>> Do you have this problem now, or just anticipating? (not that it >>> matters, I'm just curious) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:38 PM, S Powell <powe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> To protect users from themselves, I have it set up so that users are >>>> _required_ to check a document out to >>>> edit. >>>> >>>> Do any of you know if there is a way to force the document to be checked >>>> back in if inactive or >>>> at a certain time of day? >>>> eg. If a user checks out a doc, after two hours force it to be checked >>>> back in? Or like at 11pm every night force all docs to be checked back >>>> in. >>>> >>>> I've googled around, and can see where an admin could do it. But nothing >>>> about doing it automatically. >>>> >>>> >>>> ----------------- >>>> Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>> >>>> --- >>>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
