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Sharing Oracle Content DB servers only: Displays a window where you can set
the properties for sharing the selected file; in other words, who has access to the file. For more information, see
Section 8.11.4, Viewing and Modifying Sharing Properties of Folders or Files.
8.3 Online and Offline Mode
Folders and files can be in online and offline mode. In online mode, you need a live connection to the content server to have access to the folders and files on it. You log in
to the server and then you have access to all folders and files in accordance with your assigned privileges see
Section 7.10, Connecting to a Content Server .
In offline mode, there are read-only copies of folders and files in a special cache location on your local computer see
Section 8.2.3, Local Caching of Content Files .
This means that you can view these folders and files in read-only mode, even if you are not connected to the content server; in other words, when you are working with
that server in offline mode see Section 8.23.6, Working Offline
. This may be useful in situations where you need access to content files, but you cannot connect to the
server that they reside on. For example, you may need read-only access to a report for a presentation you are giving while traveling. You can then obtain a copy of the
current version of that report before you disconnect from the server and have read-only access to that file while working offline.
You make files available offline called syndicate in Desktop Integration Suite versions prior to 11gR1 using their context menu Make Content Available Offline
for folders and Make Available Offline for files. Please note that if you select the Make Content Available Offline option in the context menu of a folder, it is not the
folder itself that is made available offline, but all files in that folder, including files in subfolders. Only content items in a folder show the offline availability icon blue
cylinder; see
Figure 8–3 , not the folder itself. Also, this action is performed on the
snapshot of the folder at that given time. If you add any new files to the folder, these are not automatically made available offline. You will need to make the folder
available offline again to include the new files in the folder.
Files that are available offline show a cylinder in their file icon, which can be either blue or gray
Figure 8–3 . In addition, the Make Available Offline option in the file
context menu has a check mark.
Figure 8–3 Offline Availability Icons
The cylinder is blue if the versions of your locally cached file copy and the original file on the content server match; that is, no new revision has been checked in to the content
server since you selected the file for offline availability. In other words, your local file copy is up to date. The cylinder is gray if the offline and online file versions do not
match. This would, for example, be the case if someone updated the original item on the content server, and your local copy is still an older revision. In other words, your
local file copy is outdated. When online, you can update an offline content folder by right-clicking it and choosing Refresh Offline Content in the context menu. All offline
files in that folder are then overwritten with the most recent revisions of those files in the content server.
Note: If you check out an offline file, it is no longer read-only. You
can make changes and check it back in.
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For more information, see Section 8.23, Working With Offline Content Folders and
Files.
8.4 Creating Content Folders
