Clicking an Office file does NOT open it as read only!

Hi,


When you click a file in a document library is SHOULD open read only -
on a document library i am looking at - it does not....

Does anyone know why a file clicked on would NOT open read only? (or
what to do so it works correctly)

Thanks!



Steve

John
Thu Jun 28 08:26:08 CDT 2007

What version of SharePoint are you running? How is the library setup
(concerning versioning and check-in/out)?

With WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) check-in/out and versioning are independent
of each other. You can use check-in/out without versioning turned on and
you can turn on versioning and utilize it without check-in/out.
Versioning does not force a checkout.

With WSS 3.0 (and MOSS 2007) this is the same, but you now have the
ability to force check-out in order to edit documents.

HTH,
John

steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> When you click a file in a document library is SHOULD open read only -
> on a document library i am looking at - it does not....
>
> Does anyone know why a file clicked on would NOT open read only? (or
> what to do so it works correctly)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Steve
>

steve
Thu Jun 28 10:17:58 CDT 2007

On Jun 28, 2:26 pm, John Belkevich <j_belkev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What version of SharePoint are you running? How is the library setup
> (concerning versioning and check-in/out)?
>
> With WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) check-in/out and versioning are independent
> of each other. You can use check-in/out without versioning turned on and
> you can turn on versioning and utilize it without check-in/out.
> Versioning does not force a checkout.
>
> With WSS 3.0 (and MOSS 2007) this is the same, but you now have the
> ability to force check-out in order to edit documents.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
>
>
> steve wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > When you click a file in a document library it SHOULD open read only -
> > on the document library i am looking at - it does not....
>
> > Does anyone know why a file clicked on would NOT open read only? (or
> > what to do, so it works correctly)
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Steve- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -




Hi,


Thanks for your reply....We are using WSS 2.0 hosted within a Portal -
however the site with the problem is a team site. Versioning is off.

Any ideas?

Thanks.


Steve

John
Thu Jun 28 14:15:33 CDT 2007

So, you have a WSS 2.o Team site, with versioning turned off? Why do you
think the file should be opened read-only?

steve wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2:26 pm, John Belkevich <j_belkev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> What version of SharePoint are you running? How is the library setup
>> (concerning versioning and check-in/out)?
>>
>> With WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) check-in/out and versioning are independent
>> of each other. You can use check-in/out without versioning turned on and
>> you can turn on versioning and utilize it without check-in/out.
>> Versioning does not force a checkout.
>>
>> With WSS 3.0 (and MOSS 2007) this is the same, but you now have the
>> ability to force check-out in order to edit documents.
>>
>> HTH,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> steve wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> When you click a file in a document library it SHOULD open read only -
>>> on the document library i am looking at - it does not....
>>> Does anyone know why a file clicked on would NOT open read only? (or
>>> what to do, so it works correctly)
>>> Thanks!
>>> Steve- Hide quoted text -
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Thanks for your reply....We are using WSS 2.0 hosted within a Portal -
> however the site with the problem is a team site. Versioning is off.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>

steve
Fri Jun 29 03:37:01 CDT 2007

On 28 Jun, 20:15, John Belkevich <j_belkev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> So, you have a WSS 2.o Team site, with versioning turned off? Why do you
> think the file should be opened read-only?
>
>
>
> steve wrote:
> > On Jun 28, 2:26 pm, John Belkevich <j_belkev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> What version of SharePoint are you running? How is the library setup
> >> (concerning versioning and check-in/out)?
>
> >> With WSS 2.0 (and SPS 2003) check-in/out and versioning are independent
> >> of each other. You can use check-in/out without versioning turned on and
> >> you can turn on versioning and utilize it without check-in/out.
> >> Versioning does not force a checkout.
>
> >> With WSS 3.0 (and MOSS 2007) this is the same, but you now have the
> >> ability to force check-out in order to edit documents.
>
> >> HTH,
> >> John
>
> >> steve wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> When you click a file in a document library it SHOULD open read only -
> >>> on the document library i am looking at - it does not....
> >>> Does anyone know why a file clicked on would NOT open read only? (or
> >>> what to do, so it works correctly)
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Steve- Hide quoted text -
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Thanks for your reply....We are using WSS 2.0 hosted within a Portal -
> > however the site with the problem is a team site. Versioning is off.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > Steve- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,

That is standard behavious - you click the file in a document library
and it opens read only bugt if you want to edit it then you hover over
the file and select edit in word or excel or whatever office app the
file extension corresponds to....

Not sure if you are aware of this - I know it is counter-intuitive but
this is the design of SharePoint 2003 - you click a file and it should
open read-only this is the design of SharePoint - to open read only
you choose "edit in xxx"

However on our install you click it and it says read only and then you
make a change and can save back to the document library.....

Any ideas?

John
Fri Jun 29 08:43:56 CDT 2007

I agree that it says 'read-only' in the title bar after opening the
file, but unless you force a check out (only in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007),
the file can be edited and saved. That is standard behavior with WSS 2.0
and SPS 2003 as far as I know. One of the shortcomings of the document
management capabilities of those products.

Someone correct me if I am wrong...

>
> Hi,
>
> That is standard behavious - you click the file in a document library
> and it opens read only bugt if you want to edit it then you hover over
> the file and select edit in word or excel or whatever office app the
> file extension corresponds to....
>
> Not sure if you are aware of this - I know it is counter-intuitive but
> this is the design of SharePoint 2003 - you click a file and it should
> open read-only this is the design of SharePoint - to open read only
> you choose "edit in xxx"
>
> However on our install you click it and it says read only and then you
> make a change and can save back to the document library.....
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>