Multiple users can share documents at the same time

[vnbhanushali]

Do we have the facility of "sharing the same document" in our OpenKM DMS.
ie. If 2 persons wants to modify the single document and update their data individually in the same file, is their any facility like this?

Thanks in advance...

[jllort]

It's basically the main goal of any dms that only one use can update the document at same time, preventing one user deletes the job of the others. Obviously it's not allowed by none DMS. The users can clone ( copy ) the document and start new historical version ... but both users at same time can not modify the document, that's not possible.

I think you're thinking on some SVN, CVS scenario where boths users modify the document and then there's some merge ( that sometimes is automatic and others not ) ... but always must be validated by the user. What you're purposing in text files is well solved, but with binary ( pdf, office openoffice etc... is not trivial and depends on each document structure )

[vnbhanushali]

That's fine, I just wanted to know this. I think this is application specific like we do sharing in microsoft excel.
Anyway thanks for the quick reply.

[jllort]

This kind of merge you purpose is not trivial and easy to be done, because it depends on which kind of document must be done ... I'll investigate if with open office libraries there's some way for doing it ... could be interesting ... at least to detecting differences between versions and try showing it.