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MS Office Integration and Laserfiche 10

asked on October 6, 2015

H All,

 

Bar the obvious outstanding feature requests wink, one of the the most annoying things and probably the most common complaint we have as a VAR from users is when working with office documents in Laserfiche, they make changes and then close the document and their changes are lost. We are aware that using the Laserfiche ribbon instead of closing the document or clicking the floppy disk icon can get round this problem but changing the way the users think and act is difficult after so many years of them using office in this way. More often than not, they have closed the document and the connection to Laserfiche has dropped and their changes are lost. sad

 

Obviously another workaround is to check the document out as described in this KB article - https://support.laserfiche.com/KB/1012856  - but again that relies on user intervention in the first place to remember to check the document out, much easier than it sounds.

 

My question is, with the pending release of Laserfiche 10 some time soon, has this changed in any way, or will LF 10 still be plagued with the same frustrations?

 

If the connection is going to behave in the same way, how difficult would it be to change the behavior so that double clicking the document actually checks it out, rather than simply opening it, or at least having that available as a global setting we as administrators can toggle on and off?

 

Cheers!

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replied on October 6, 2015

OK, thanks for reporting it. We'll do some more digging.

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replied on October 6, 2015

Totally agree with you on this point.

It's a nightmare everything users calling in saying that they are not finding their changes

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replied on October 6, 2015

Are you still seeing it in 9.2.1 or 9.1.1.582? There was an issue with checking in documents where the changes would be lost if the user clicked Save then immediately checked the document in while the anti-virus was delaying the save by inspecting the file. It should be addressed in 9.2.1 and it was hotfixed into 9.1.1.

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replied on October 6, 2015

Hi Miruna,

 

The issue isn't with check in check out. That works fine. The issue is when you have a document open for long periods of time (hours) and then close the document or click the floppy disk icon (save). All this does is update the copy of the document located in the users temp directory. Laserfiche is no longer aware that you have the document open and it needs to interact with it. 

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replied on October 6, 2015

Do you know the versions of Laserfiche used? The Office plug-in also investigated an issue that sounds like that for 9.1.

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replied on October 6, 2015

It's been an issue since the very first office integration and been present in every version thereafter. We are still seeing the issue in the latest incarnation of 9.2.1. (Sp1 I believe)

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SELECTED ANSWER
replied on October 6, 2015

OK, thanks for reporting it. We'll do some more digging.

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replied on October 6, 2015

Thanks Miruna!

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replied on March 16, 2021

I can confirm that this is still an issue. Even with using the LF MSOffice ribbon. We are on 10.4 thick client (tried 10.3 as well). Any updates or developments in this regard?

 

From what i gather, check in check out so far has been the only way to address this and it's more of a work around than a solution.

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