Re: Offline use of lists

From: Ian Morrish (ian_morrish_at_hotmaildotcom)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:05:41 +1200

If you want to avoid them writing the info back you could use Access 2003
top take a copy of the list data.
I built a crude sample which copies Mike's WSS FAQ into Access. User can
pull down a new copy on demand.
http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/Downloads/DispForm.aspx?ID=2

Regards,
Ian
"MDS" <mds_work@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uLoR6RTLEHA.2592@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Sure! Only be really careful, when synching changes back it overwrites
other
> peoples changes (i.e. if you synch something you've had offline for a
month,
> all the changes during that month will be overwritten...)
>
>
>
> "jp" <juhapyo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:408fac72$0$27069$39db0f71@news.song.fi...
> > Hi
> >
> > Is it possible that several users could use same Sharepoint list offline
> by
> > using Excel 2003?
> >
> > First they should use "Export and Link to Excel" command in data***
view
> > and after that they could update only local Excel file and
> > syncronize it with Sharepoint list when network connection in available.
> >
> > Should this work in reality?
> >
> > Regards
> > Juha
> >
> >
>
>