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Edit MS Office Document using WebDAV

'Edit Online' means when you click button [Online Edit] in the document detail page, DocCare will check out the document, then invoke MS Office application to open the document. After you edit and save the document, DocCare will store the updated document to your [My Drafts] folder under [My Documents] pane. You can open the document again for editing from [My Drafts] pane. When you click button [Check In], DocCare will check in the document, increase the version number.

This feature requires MS Office 2003, 2007, 2008. Other applications which support WebDav may also works.

Note: You should use IE core browsers to open the document. Also you should have MS Office application suite installed on your local computer.

Steps below:

  1. Enter document detail page. If the document supports online editing, you will see [Online Edit] button in this page. Click this button, IE will invoke MS Office application to open this document. You will be asked to input DocCare user account and password.
  2. The document is automatically checked out. You can edit the document, the document draft is stored in [My Drafts] in [My Documents] pane.
  3. If you save the document in MS Office application, DocCare will save the document to [My Drafts] in [My Documents] pane. The document status is still checked out.
  4. You also can click button [Continue Edit] in the document detail page or click the document name in [My Drafts] to keep on editing.
  5. You can click button [Check In] in the document detail page or click link [Check In] in [My Drafts] page to check in the document.
    After you check in the document, the document draft will be deleted by DocCare.
  6. You also can click button [Discard] in the document detail page or click link [Discard] in [My Drafts] page to discard the change of the document.
    After you discard the document, the document draft will be deleted by DocCare.


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