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  2. CONFCLOUD-39185

Concurrent editing of files for the Office Connector

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      If there is an Office file embedded on a page and two users start editing it in Office at the same time. The first one to save his/her changes will have the changes uploaded to Confluence. The other one that saves after the first is not able to save at all. Office seems to be puzzled when the file has changed form. Office does not show the changes and does not allow saving. It does not even say that the save has not been made. It just does not save.

      This is bad if a lot of changes have been made and it does not inform of the problem. Someone might just save and close the window and realize later that nothing was actually saved and nothing can be found in the version history.

            [CONFCLOUD-39185] Concurrent editing of files for the Office Connector

            Uwe Schnabel added a comment -

            A year later (again) and it had not moved. Would need the feature as well. Thanks for considering.

            Uwe Schnabel added a comment - A year later (again) and it had not moved. Would need the feature as well. Thanks for considering.

            Inov8 Admin added a comment - - edited

            How can you consider Confluence to be a valuable collaboration tool if you don't allow collaboration? The upload and download of documents to allow editing is certainly not an efficient way and still does not allow multiple simultaneous edits.  Very disappointing.

            Inov8 Admin added a comment - - edited How can you consider Confluence to be a valuable collaboration tool if you don't allow collaboration? The upload and download of documents to allow editing is certainly not an efficient way and still does not allow multiple simultaneous edits.  Very disappointing.

            biwerr added a comment -

            It would be also a nice feature if you can lock a file while editing, to prevent other users from doing changes. This should be optional, like a checkbox you can set before start "edit in Office".

             

            biwerr added a comment - It would be also a nice feature if you can lock a file while editing, to prevent other users from doing changes. This should be optional, like a checkbox you can set before start "edit in Office".  

            Paul Casdorff added a comment -

            On my page the existing file just gets overwritten when saving. So the last user wins and all previous changes made are lost.

            Best regards,

            Paul

            Paul Casdorff added a comment - On my page the existing file just gets overwritten when saving. So the last user wins and all previous changes made are lost. Best regards, Paul

            Jim Morrison added a comment -

            Yes, I do need that too

            Jim Morrison added a comment - Yes, I do need that too

            zouhair jamal-bennis added a comment -

            Hi,

            This is a blocking to use confluence for storing files that are about to be dynamically updated.

            Thank you in advance for providing this feature.

            Best regards,

            Zouhair

            zouhair jamal-bennis added a comment - Hi, This is a blocking to use confluence for storing files that are about to be dynamically updated. Thank you in advance for providing this feature. Best regards, Zouhair

            JEAN-LUC PLANQUE added a comment -

            Can you fix the concurrent access issue that prevent using the Confluence potential in the company ?

             

            Thanks

            Jean-Luc

            JEAN-LUC PLANQUE added a comment - Can you fix the concurrent access issue that prevent using the Confluence potential in the company ?   Thanks Jean-Luc

            Adam Strong added a comment -

            Hello,

            My company has started using Confluence and this is a HUGE potential issue for us. Please fix this so it either won't allow concurrent editing or that there is at least a dialogue box to notify the user that another user is editing the file.

            Thanks,
            Adam

            Adam Strong added a comment - Hello, My company has started using Confluence and this is a HUGE potential issue for us. Please fix this so it either won't allow concurrent editing or that there is at least a dialogue box to notify the user that another user is editing the file. Thanks, Adam

            Jochen Zimmermann added a comment -

            Hi,

            are you going to add or bugfix this functionality in confluence? We would also like to have the possibility to avoid a concurrent change of the doc.

            Thx
            Jochen

            Jochen Zimmermann added a comment - Hi, are you going to add or bugfix this functionality in confluence? We would also like to have the possibility to avoid a concurrent change of the doc. Thx Jochen

            Victor Prasad added a comment -

            Thanks for the update!

            Victor Prasad added a comment - Thanks for the update!

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