How does Document Check in /out works

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From: Swee (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:53:46 -0800

Thanks for the information!

 I am trying to evaluate Sharepoint services to see
whether it can be used for our document management
application where user can check in a file, check out a
file and modify the file then check back in again. The
file type can be .exe, .zip, .jpg etc. I still don't
understand how to check out a file, say a .exe, to my
local drive and make some changes to it then check back in
again (I have tried using check in function but it does
not prompt me for the location of the updated file and
happily reported that the file has been checked in
successfully). I can use "save as" to get a copy but then
how to I check it back in?

  I think I have a lot of reading to do, if anyone of you
can point me to some books or resources on how to do that,
I would really appreciate it. Hopefully I get some
response before I pull all my hairs off :-)

Swee

>-----Original Message-----
>You can find more information about Document Check-In and
>Check-Out from the WSS Administrators Guide which can be
>downloaded from the link below.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all
/
>adminguide/en-us/default.mspx
>
>If you are downloading .exe (which i believe needs to be
>taken out of the blocked file extensions before upload)
>you will need to right click and Save Target As. This
>will give you a copy of the file on your desktop.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I would like to store .exe or Zip file in Document
>>library. Once the file is uploaded, how to I get a copy
>>of the document back. I thought check out function will
>>allows me to do that but when I tried to checkout, the
>>operation does not seem to do anything other than update
>>the status to check out.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>.
>>
>.
>

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