Forum Discussion
Disable co-authoring at document library level (SPO)?
If you modify the library to require checkout that should disable co-authoring. Library settings- Versioning Settings - Require checkout.
It does require some discipline on the users to check the documents back in.
If you modify the library to require checkout that should disable co-authoring. Library settings- Versioning Settings - Require checkout.
It does require some discipline on the users to check the documents back in.
Thanks for the reply. I don't want to go down the check out process, bring back memories of SPS2003 which were dark days! :)
Interesting comment re forcing the documents to open in the client rather than the browser, I'll look into that one. Didn't know the co-authoring was dependant on Auto-save being enabled, I've got some registry edits to switch auto-save off so I might also give that a go.
The issue, latency on the OD syncing. For example two people editing a Excel sheet, within the desktop client. The first user finishes what they are doing and saves and exits. The second user can't save their changes until the sync has happened from the first users PC to SharePoint, this can take minutes and during this time the second user is getting some horrible messages about loosing their changes etc. Finally the sync will complete and the second users computer will get the sync update and then they are able to save. I thought it was a broadband issue but that seems to be coping ok (monitored the link utilisation). It looks like it's down to the spec of the PCs vs the amount of items that OneDrive is handling. This is the new Windows 10 1709 OneDrive client so the majority of the files are cloud only but there are over 100k items in this particular document library.
- oh, that amount of files isn't really supported yet either if you are syncing the entire library that is what you issue is possibly as well. I remember sitting in a session at Ignite talking about anything over a certain amount would cause issues. I would check office versions first, but syncing larger libraries is an issue, may still need to use selective sync to limit what's coming to the client to process.
Worth noting, I wouldn't ever recommend enabling force checkout on a OneDrive library, that's a whole other beast.
Is the OneDrive structure flat or nested folders?. That volume of documents in a flat structure is definitely going to cause issues.
- Well this isn't an issue with Co-Authoring, seems to be a case for it :P. What office client's are editing these documents? Technically you shouldn't be able to open the same document, and usually when you do open a file via OneDrive if you have an online connection it should open it via the Web not from your local storage. I got a feeling you need to get office apps updated cause co-auth would be better in this situation, and even if not for co-auth the later office clients usually know to open the file direct from SharePoint and not locally unless your offline. .
