I'm wondering if you ever got this resolved. The same thing is happening to me: no matter that I already have NO selected for "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited?" in Versioning settings for my library, still all of my documents act as if they want to be checked out when I click on them and still have "Check Out" selectable in the menu drop down for each item.
Hi Douglas, there are no required fields in the particular document libary I am working with as far as I can tell, other than the name of each document in the libray. My documents in the library all have names and titles.
what is checkout in sharepoint document library
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I'm guessing it has something to do with dpocuments HAVING to be checked out during the upload process? And, even though the documents in essence get checked in once they're in a library, I can't really turn off "checking out"?
I don't know. What seems odd to me is that from the tone of other answers in this thread, others of you seem to be saying that you CAN turn off "checking out" in libraries. Does that mean you no longer see "Check Out" in the drop down menu for document names in that library?
I am not sure if this can be customized in the new format as the library reverts to the "classic" mode if it detects custom development modifying some of the features ( -document-libraries-in-sharepoint/).
Edit: I know you can do this to a point in SP2013 classic library ( -check-out-in-sharepoint-2013), but in the case of the new libraries, I am not sure if that option is available (haven't played too much with the new library yet). However, from what I have seen there is no straight forward way to disable the options in the library. Again, even if you are able to, the controls you build will not affect the Office Integration options.
We have some document libraries in a modern Sharepoint online communications site, where in Versioning Settings for the library, we have Required documents to be checked out before they can be edited. This seems to work great for all file types except for OneNote. OneNote notebooks cannot be edited in this library unless we turn off requiring documents to be checked in /out. This is based on our own experience but I can't find any documentation from MS that this is true. Can anyone else confirm this behavior?
Hi, when files are in a document document library the main point it's not check out, is open for collaboration. So you can have other users in the same document, comment, live sharing and have versions.
I have a document library in my SharePoint 2013 site. (I have SharePoint Foundation.) I want to allow people to add documents and also to view documents (and save them locally to their own PC) but I DO NOT want them to be able to check out files or edit them. We are having a problem with people saving files back to the document library with their own personal information on them. I ALWAYS want the original file to stay in the document library (unless admin deletes it).
At the same time the document has no checked in version at all and therefore it is not visible to others (although it is uploaded and can be seen in library settings -> Manage files which have no checked in version).
If you need to make changes to a file on a site and you want to be sure no one else can edit it during your editing, then check-out the file. When checked out the file, you can edit it online or offline, and save it multiple times, if necessary. The following sections show you how check-out and check-in document works, and what happens when you discard a check-out from a file in a SharePoint library.
In a new library, Check-out/check-in of documents is disabled. This means co-authoring is the standard way of work for Microsoft. Check-out/check-in can be activated in the library settings > Versioning settings. In most working situations, I would activate it. That means users need to check-out documents before editing.
This Turns on require check out for the document library. What if you want to enable or disable require check out for all document libraries in a SharePoint Online site collection? Well, there is no way to do that from web UI.
Being able to check files in and out in SharePoint is a great way to manage updates, avoid conflicts and enforce version control. But this feature is not enabled by default when creating a new library. To turn on document checkout, you need to change the "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited" option in the document library's versioning settings (see screenshot).
Problems can arise when someone checks out a document, does not check it back in, and then becomes unavailable (perhaps going on vacation or leaving the organization and having their account disabled). When this happens, the file may not show in your document library views, leading you to think it has disappeared.
This is a pretty common thing. You're working inside SharePoint with documents or files or whatever it may be. You tell someone to go have a look at one of those documents and they tell you they don't see it. You go back to the library and you can see everything just fine. This doesn't make any sense to you. Why can you see everything but they can't?
Imagine in the following document library the "Eula" document was first checked out 4 days ago - and we want to setup Reminder to send out email alerts after a document has been checked out for over 12 hours.
In your MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 implementation, you have a document library with checkin / checkout enabled. If a user with read-only ("Visitor") permissions looks at the document options from the drop-down menu on the document name, they have no option to check in or check out:
However, if the same user opens a document from that library, the document will open as read-only in its MS Office application (Word, Excel, etc.), but the user will see the "Server Document" bar with the message "To modify this document, you must check it out" and the "check out" button.
Update 4/28/10 - I tested this with SharePoint 2010 and Word 2010 - For a document from a read-only document library, Word does not display a "check out" button, and does not allow the user to check out the document from the File menu. The document is displayed as a read-only document.
To note - for a user with Site Collection Administrator or higher rights, even on a document library where that user's rights are Read, it appears that Word does allow the Admin-level user to go through the steps of checking out the document (from the File menu), and even displays the document with the checked-out icon in the document library. When the user makes a change to the document and tries to save the document back to the document library, this message is displayed in Word:
To further complicate matters, if the Admin-level user tries to check the document back in, "Discard check out" is not displayed, only "Check out." If the Admin-level user checks out and then discards that checkout, changes that user made to the document are saved. Strange behavior of which SP administrators should be aware.
another suggestion like if we have admin creds to share point we can do some setting sin the document library add one more status related to checkout and we can identify easily whether the file is already checked out or not. please refer the below link it might help your requirement. thanks.
Suppose we have a document library that has major and minor versioning enabled. We want to know what happens if we disable versioning and re-enable it again, and what is lost/retained from the items versions history.
Example: Before disabling the versioning for the document library one document is in version 0,2 with version history 0.1, 0.2. After the versioning is disabled the item is modified. After re-enabling the versioning the change done while the versioning was disabled has increased the major version of the document (document published), so the versioning history now is 0.1, 0.2, 1.0 instead of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 how would have been if the versioning was not disabled when the change has happened.
If minor versions are enabled for a document library then temporarily disabling versioning will affect the version history if changes are made while the versioning is disabled. The problem is that every change in that period will publish the document to the next major version. 2ff7e9595c
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