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Disable co-authoring at document library level (SPO)?
Hi, As the title reads, is there a way of turing off co-authoring at document library level? At the moment the technology is causing some major headaches for users and it would be good to be able ...
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.
Think he just means OneDrive client :P. But yeah I would agree with that statement if it was OneDrive library being synced, but he says SharePoint, either way, using Checked out is bad juju all around unless there is a very specific use case for it.
Right now best bet is Office client so it opens up direct and not local. If those are up to date then def. look into limiting synced file count.
Right now best bet is Office client so it opens up direct and not local. If those are up to date then def. look into limiting synced file count.
Thanks for the replies, although things did go off on a tangent there :) Just for info, if a library is sync'd using the new "files on demand" function and the document isn't currently available offline, as soon as you open it from SharePoint (browser) it gets sync'd to the PC.
I take the note about max item count, I'd like to hear the official line from MS regarding max item count with the new "files on demand" client and if the maximum items is all the items or just the offline items.