Greetings all,
we are working on intranet and i would like to upload the excel sheet for the intranet, but am i allowed to make the several users open as well as edit it next those changes saved so that when another user open the file he see last changes..
You will want a Document Supervision System if multiple people are going to be working on a similar file. The reason is if two everyone is working on your file simultaneously it will eventually cause problems and also the files will have to be merged. There are various of pre-packaged techniques like Microsoft SourceSafe (probably the most effective known) that allow documents being checked-out like some sort of library book so only one particular person can modify a document in the given time. You can also get web-based document administration systems. I recognize MS has you, but it’s super-expensive (like $20k USD). You might probably emulate much of the functionality of the DMS using PHP, but it could be a pretty involved project. You may want to look around with regard to existing open-source DMS assignments using PHP.
PS – That easy way to accomplish this would be to work with FTP instead of HTTP to allow them to examine and write. After that, you will take to give every author an FTP account with your document server.
thanks a good deal transio,
but tips on how to use ftp. what we need is simply 2 user clicks using a link the excel file is popped then he modify it and conserve changes, but how changes will be saved on device, when another consumer open the file later they can see the changes for the file.