Edit an original file

[edgarv]

Hello,

I just intalled SharePoint on my 2003 server, I have been playing around with it and it is pretty cool. My question is, is there a way to edit the original document? What I mean is I have a docuement on c:\mydocument.xls when I upload the document to sharepoint and edit it from sharepoint it creates a copy. It does not edit the original document. Is there a way to edit the original document from sharepoint?? and if not where are all the copies stored?? this has been keeping me up at night

any Help is greatly appreciate it

Thank you

Edgar V

 

[ChaserNL]

The documents are stored in te database (as blobs.). (by default the WMSDE database) thats why the original document (c is not edited, it has noting to do with the version in sharepoint also make sure you open the document with the edit in Word link and not by editing the read only version and then saving.

Greetings

 

[edgarv]

is there a way to edit the c:\mydocument? or is there a way to point the share documents to a specific forlder in the server?

 

[ChaserNL]

No all documents have to be stored in the database. (this enables the sharepoint features), else it would be nothing more then a file share and you dont need sharepoint for that.

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

You can store a local copy on your machine and have it update the sharepoint version.

I did the following (might not be the best way but it is my way

1. On the sharepoint site I opened an already existing Excel document.
2. In excel, in the shared workspace pane you can show, I Clicked the Documents symbol, chosed add a document..
3. Browse to the file you want to add to the site, mark the checkbox Make workspace updates available when I open my copy.
4 Then upload/save the document to the location you want on your sharepoint site.

The documents in sharepoint are still located in the database just as ChaserNL says, but now you can open your local copy, get updates from sharepoint if there has been any and also save your changes and update the sharepoint version aswell.

I did this kind of setup for users that were going to update some excelspreadsheets, and they wanted the documents on their local machine aswell, and without having a fancy offline sync for sharepoint this was the easiest way to set it up.

It might not be a fancy solution and might not work 100% but it fulfilled our needs.

Not sure if this was even what you were looking for..

Cheers,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

I did not know that, thanks for sharing Thomas!