Although the user is nót the author of a particular document he/she is still be able to launch an attachment with Edit.
But after changing and saving the attachment he is not able to save the notes document. Which is great!
But we don’t want to let hem to edit the document.
So, is it possible to disable the Edit function for attachments?
Subject: This is not a Notes problem.
Users are always able to save the document, launch it in Windows and then edit it.If possible, you can make the file read-only (eg with Word).
Subject: I think this is a Notes problem.
Please note that in a preview pane the “Edit” and “Delete” “Attachment Actions” are greyed out for an attachment. Those actions should also be grayed out when the document is in read mode.
(Perhaps a programmer thought it was a good idea to have the attachment Edit action change the document mode from read to edit. Unfortunately they do not trap the error of the user not having rights to edit the document. The attachment Edit action should have greyed out until the user puts the document into edit mode)
Subject: I think it it is…
… a Notes problem, that is.
If a user does not have edit rights to the Notes document then they can’t save changes back to that Notes document. So, it’s misleading for the Edit option to be present for them.
If a user does not have edit rights to the Notes document then the Edit option should be greyed out. Or, perhaps a better option would be for dialog box to appear, when a “non-edit” user picks the Edit option. This dialog would warn the user that, since they don’t have edit access to the Notes document, they won’t be able to save back their changes. It would also ask the user whether or not they then wanted to proceed to “edit” the attachment anyway.
Cheers,
Subject: RE: This is not a Notes problem.
Thanks for your response.
I agree with that …
but, it’s very anoying that it seems that a user is able to edit the document but after editing and saving the ms-word document and leaving the Notes document a message is shown that it’s not possible to save the document!?!?
So why not disable the Edit function if the user is not able edit the content and store it in the current document?
Frank
Subject: RE: This is not a Notes problem.
I quite agree: The feature should be plugable on application/database level (via a Database property). We already built an “Edit-function” for Office-Documents in our-application. The new feature will confuse user (which way to use?). Maybe IBM will hit me but it should also be configurable based on File-extension (as an additional point; client-side and/or per application; positive oder negaive extension-list via policies would be a dream): If I have no program for certain file-types why should there be an Edit-Butoon if I click on the file?
Regards
Wolfgang