Sharepoint question

Drez

Does anyone know if Sharepoint allows live collaboration within a Sharepoint workspace?

So basically we use a shared workbook (I know, this is not good, but I'm kind of inheriting this and I need some quick resolution before I can develop a proper application to support this process). Multiple people need to be able to work on the workbook simultaneously in the current workflow.

The Sharepoint-like software we use doesn't allow for multi-user simultaneous editing. I doubt Sharepoint does either, but I don't know much about it - never used it. Anyone able to shed some light here? Thanks.

EclecticGroove

I've never seen it do this, it uses the check in/check out method for access everytime I've ever used it... but that may be a quirk of our design or version.

Quick googlefu:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/sharepoint2010general/thread/c74bbb33-1a9c-48b8-ac54-ac30dfa62fa8

Looks like sharepoint technically allows it, but it would be up to the software editing the files to be able to merge and consolodate differences.

Lindsay Lohan

As far as I've used here at work our Sharepoint docs all get "checked out" when you plan on making actual changes and then checked back in once you save your changes and upload them to the system. If someone else accesses the file while you have it checked out it will warn them it's a read only version because you have it checked out already. I don't think there's anyway around it to do multi-user editing.

Drez

Excellent, thanks. That's what I figured.

Feral

Keep in mind that the document collaboration features were called "Microsoft Groove" in 2007 and "Sharepoint Workspace" in 2010, so if you're researching it online, you may encounter inconsistent terminology.

Drez

Ah, thanks, Feral.

schuss

Also, if you don't need all the functions of an excel sheet, you can do it as a sharepoint list, which can be concurrently updated by multiple users.