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issues with emailed document links from library

Last post 11-26-2007, 7:57 AM by NigelMines. 0 replies.
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  •  11-26-2007, 7:57 AM 28919

    issues with emailed document links from library

    Hi

     When we email a link from a document in a library (Send To: from drop down list), the link it creates behaves completely differently to how we want it to (and think it should). Instead of opening the document as it would if the user had clicked on it from the library, it opens it in read only mode, with no option to check it out etc. When the user has edited it, they then need to know where to save it back to and could overwrite the original, and others could be editing the document at the same time.  This seems to ba a flaw in the design. Is there a way around this? The only 'solution' i can think of is to send them a link to the library rather than the document, so that then they will be prompted to check it out. But this creates more work to make sure that the user knows which doc to open.

     Please help... :-)

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