Limit users of a file to one at once

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Yoeri de Waal

• April 06, 2022 08:28

When planning within the organization, we use Microsoft project 2016. This type of document does not support simultaneous working. If multiple people open such a document at the same time, box will create a copy of the file. This is not the intention.

Is it possible for box to limit the use of such a document to one person at a time?
For example, to give a notification when the document is already open elsewhere, or to limit it to 1 user at a time by closing/ locking the document at that moment?

Kind regards,
Yoeri

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  France

  • April 06, 2022 20:38
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  Hi Yoeri, 

  Welcome to the Box Community,I'm happy to help!

  We have some recommendations that might help achieve your goal to limit to only one person at a time when working on a document in Box.

  You may use Box's "Lock and Unlock" feature. To learn more about this feature, please take a look at this article: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043697174-Locking-Unlocking-Files 

  We've also enhanced this feature for Box Drive application. To learn more and to enable this feature for your account, please check out this article: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061782454-Enabling-Enhanced-Lock-Unlock-on-Box-Drive 

  Thanks for reaching out and please let us know if you have any questions!

  Regards,

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