Stump the Panel Topic: Best practices for document library behavior during a workflow http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ Paul Grenier, Lead Moderator en Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:59:32 +0000 NancyCentury on "Best practices for document library behavior during a workflow" http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/topic/best-practices-for-document-library-behavior-during-a-workflow#post-2554 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:32:02 +0000 NancyCentury 2554@http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ <p>If I use "Assign a Form to a Group" action in SPD to gather feedback on a document, and the document library has check in/check out enabled, how will that affect the behavior of the source document when my reviewers open it to review before submtiting their feedback? </p> <p>If the original document is not checked out, will the first person to open it for review check it out to himself, causing all subsequent reviewers to get an "open in read-only" option (until he checks it back in), and so forth?</p> <p>Or is is better to leave it checked out for the whole workflow, so no one will be able to alter it during the review process? </p>