Co-authoring support?

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sscbrian

Is there any support for co-authoring (instead of checking out documents individually)?  I see SharePoint has the "Google Docs" style co-authoring where multiple people can work on a document at the same time (and see real-time changes).  I've got users asking for that functionality and am unsure if Alfresco supports it.  If so, how do I access it?

afaust

Hello,

I am not aware of any out-of-the-box co-authoring support except maybe for the option of editing files in Google Docs. In Alfresco Community 5.1 the SharePoint connector will be switched to a new technology platform (Alfresco Office Services - already available for Alfresco Enterprise 5.0), so maybe there could be a change there. In the past there have been some demonstrators in the community / partner ecosystem of co-authoring support via various third-party integrations, i.e. Etherpad and the like.

Features like this are constantly on the product roadmap but from my own experience changing / proprietary APIs of available platforms make it hard to come up with a "works for 80% of users" solution.

Regards
Axel