Comments on: Document is locked for editing

By: Smith

Smith — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Thanks for the explaination. If you are trying to justify bad design in Sharepoint though, I am not buying it. They are not reason you have given, they are excuses for bad design. This simply should not happen, and if it has to happen (which I doubt) at least check if it is the same user and allow the user to override the warning. You simply cannot justify this type of poor behaviour other than to say it wasn’t well thought out in the first place or we didn’t have time to fix it…

By: Matt Hancock

Matt Hancock — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:00 +0000

This was a big help!! Thanks for the information.

By: Document Locked Mystery « SharePoint From Scratch

Document Locked Mystery « SharePoint From Scratch — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:13:18 +0000

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By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:16:51 +0000

Mark,

Unfortunately I do not believe the is a way to eliminate the lock time out or reduce it. I have found no reference to any setting that can modify this behavior. Perhaps forcing your users to checkout the document to the local drafts folder can be an option to work around the issue.

Paul

By: Mark P

Mark P — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:07:23 +0000

Hi Paul,

I'm not sure if you can help, due to internal policies and procedures, the fix involving the network cards is not an option for us. do you know of any way to eliminate the lock time out, or reduce it to for example 1 minute?

All the best

Mark P

By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:05:18 +0000

Are you sure it is related? Perhaps you are suffering from the "special" character issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905231

By: Peter Martin

Peter Martin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:34:04 +0000

Paul – I am trying to upload some files that I colleague who used to work here had from 2008. I'm getting the locked message on about half of his files. The file names are not in SharePoint because I've added a “final” to the end of them. Any ideas what's causing the lock message?
Thanks, Peter

By: reddogaw

reddogaw — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:05:23 +0000

Hi Paul,

I also need to overcome one of these locks... We have an InfoPath application, and we've written a custom webservice to pull out meta data and write it to our document library (as well as deal with checkin/out problems etc). This works fine...

Until: our client has the WebClient windows service active (to enable webdav etc) then open a saved InfoPath file. This makes the client put a lock on the file... Which means on subsequent saves, our file is totally locked out from our custom webservice (which is also executing as a different user - with write/undo check out/contributor rights in SharePoint).

Any ideas how to:
* Override the lock security?
* Undo the lock security (e.g. undo checkout)?

We are using WSS3.0. And our webservice is communicating using the WSS3.0 Web Services rather than the object model...

By: reddogaw

reddogaw — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:05:23 +0000

By: velmurugan

velmurugan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:38:19 +0000

Query is successful running.afterthat how to find all the checked out files.i am new in sharepoint server.please help me.