Offline editing

[ramendik]

I am trying to use Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 to store documents and track versions.

I have a directory with automatic creation of new versions. If I open a document from there by clicking on its name, edit it (in Office 2003), and save it, a new version is created.

However, I ned to perform offline editing of documents - i.e. I need to check them out, save them as files, edit them as files, and then upload them. And I have not managed to create new versions when uploading documents - whether in the Web view by "Upload Document", or in Office 2003 by "Save As". Instead, the last version gets overwritten with the new version.

Is there any way to check in a new document version after offline editing and if so, how?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

I do not think it is possible since SPS2003 does not offer very good versioning capabilities. I would think you will have to save the document with a new name. I know that there is a way that you can have a local copy on your machine and then update the online copy, but it will still overwrite the existing document (I think). In MOSS 2007 (WSS V3) do have a good versioning system with Minor and Major versioning, which I think would work a lot better for your purposes.

Cheers,
Thomas

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