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Can you trick Word into thinking a file is locked by another user?
I'm working on a document-management project at my company.
as you know, when you open a file that is on a network drive, office apps will say 'file X is being modified by Person do you want to open in read-only mode'. I want to see if I can emulate this behaviour programatically to lock documents I've read that office apps use a ~$XXX.tmp as a lock-file. So, to test, i created a document, made edits and then copied the .doc and .tmp to another directory I thought that if i then went to view the file (with it's .tmp file still there) that it would tell me it was locked. But alas no. I also sent these files to someone else to see if it would say I had it locked but Word ignored that too. If anyone has any creative ideas in this area let me know! |
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Can you trick Word into thinking a file is locked by another user?
Surely to do this you dould just open the file for reading using whatever
language your program is written in, you don't have to open it with Word for it to get a file lock in the OS. For it to get a useful ock giving the user's info then you would have ot create a temp file in the right format. But a good DM should not let the users anywhere near the file store directy anyway, it should all be brokered by the DMS so that is what would return a "this file is in use" message, not the native implementation. -- Adam Vero MCP, MOS Master, MLSS, CWNA http://veroblog.wordpress.com http://www.meteorit.co.uk " wrote: I'm working on a document-management project at my company. as you know, when you open a file that is on a network drive, office apps will say 'file X is being modified by Person do you want to open in read-only mode'. I want to see if I can emulate this behaviour programatically to lock documents I've read that office apps use a ~$XXX.tmp as a lock-file. So, to test, i created a document, made edits and then copied the .doc and .tmp to another directory I thought that if i then went to view the file (with it's .tmp file still there) that it would tell me it was locked. But alas no. I also sent these files to someone else to see if it would say I had it locked but Word ignored that too. If anyone has any creative ideas in this area let me know! |
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