uploaded files by different users

[Mahbuba Chowdhury]

Hi:
I am trying to find a solution to this problem:

Let's say I have a word document on my Intranet site that
can be downloaded and modified and uploaded back to the
server by different users. However if two users modify
the same version of a document, and then upload it to the
server, the later upload wipes out the previous one, and
it keeps no record of what was being changed by the
previous user.

Is there a solution to this?

Thanks,
Mahbuba Chowdhury

 

[Guest]

Word isn't a document management tool so no, there is no workaround. The best you could do would be to make sure each user returns the document with a different filename and then merge the two sets of updates

If you want to write some code at the server end you could prevent a user getting the document if another user already has it for editing

This sort of doc handling is provided by Sharepoint and other document management tools

Reg

 

[Mahbuba]

Thanks Reg for your valuable information.

- Mahbuba

-----Original Message-----
Word isn't a document management tool so no, there is no

workaround. The best you could do would be to make sure
each user returns the document with a different filename
and then merge the two sets of updates.

If you want to write some code at the server end you

could prevent a user getting the document if another user
already has it for editing.

This sort of doc handling is provided by Sharepoint and

other document management tools.