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SharePoint Online with Forced Checkout and Synced Folders
I have enabled a setting in our SharePoint Online instance that forces the checkout of files in our Document Library. I want this setting to remain as-is for a multitude of reasons. (I...
I am afraid you have not searched in the right places... ;-)
For the official Microsoft statement, look for "Libraries with Checkout" in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3125202/restrictions-and-limitations-when-you-sync-files-and-folders
A couple of threads in this community are the following:
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Read-Only-Padlock-Icon-files-OFDB-17-3-6743-1212/m-p/38428#M952
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Onedrive-readonly-green-locks/m-p/39365#M981
But there are others.
In these threads, of course, are discussed several reasons for the green locks, not only mandatory checkouts.
Hope it helps...
I've only used Flows a little, but will look into it as an alternative for providing comments to checked in files. I also wanted to avoid folks inadvertently clobbering each other's changes, and the check out/check in process seemed like a reasonable way of preventing that from occurring.
Walter Pelowski Did you find a solution for this in Flow? I have users with similar needs of tracking comments but are being frustrated by the issues discussed in this thread. If Flow could be leveraged to gather comments so that the require check-out could be removed it would be very beneficial.