Upload Multiple Documents

[RickD]

Where is this attribute or permission managed? Some users can upload multiple
documents but others can only upload a single document at a time because the
multiple document upload option is not available.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Rick:

The functionality is based on the OWC level. So, this will only work for
users with an Office 2003 license. Keep in mind that Project 2003 qualifies
as an Office 2003 application and you get the Office Web Components version
appropriately. So, if your organization uses Office XP, only the users with
Project 2003 will get this functionality. Ring any bells?

 

[Engelbert]

As this has led to confusion before, I hope you'll let me point out, Gary,
that adding the downloadable "Office web parts and components" to either
server or client (two different downloads) will not help with this.

Only Office 2003 installed on the client will. Yhe server version of Office
web parts and components is very useful to have for the extra web parts it
provides to WSS but it and the client side (for users of old client software
to be able to use those extra web parts) are no use for this.

A personal question: did you mean Project Pro when you wrote Project 2003
(qualifying as an Office 2003 application) - i.e. client side software ?

Engelbert

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Englebert:

To my knowledge, the version of Project 2003 is not an issue for qualifying
for full-featured OWC activation. I don't work with Project 2003 standard,
so I could be incorrect. However, we can safely assume that Rick is using
Pro version as he's working with an Enterprise implementation.

I don't have a clue as to what you're trying to clarify in your first
statement. The correct OWCs are installed to the server when you install
Project Server. Users get these downloaded the first time that they attempt
to use a feature that requires them, however the activation state is based
on whether a qualifying license is installed on the client. If these have
been previously activated, and/or users do not have correct install
permissions on their machines, it may be necessary to remove them to force a
reinstall. Does that help?

 

[Engelbert]

Sorry to be unclear.

What I meant that there has (in the WSS newsgroups) been on occasion some
confusion between OWC (i.e. the bits that are included in Office 2003 to
allow i.a. upload multiple documents) and "Office web parts and components"
downloads. (note the addition of "web parts and" in the name)

Thus when people have been told that in order to get upload documents they
need OWC which is included in Office 2003 they have assumed that they can
get the same functionality if they install the Office Web Parts and
Components instead. They can't.

That was what I was trying to avoid in this case.

The other part of my comment (my question) was that as Office 2003 is needed
on the client to get the upload documents capability, isn't a version of
Project 2003 on the client needed if Office 2003 isn't available.

I hope at least that my reasoning is now clear.

Engelbert

Englebert:

To my knowledge, the version of Project 2003 is not an issue for
qualifying for full-featured OWC activation. I don't work with Project
2003 standard, so I could be incorrect. However, we can safely assume that
Rick is using Pro version as he's working with an Enterprise
implementation.

I don't have a clue as to what you're trying to clarify in your first
statement. The correct OWCs are installed to the server when you install
Project Server. Users get these downloaded the first time that they
attempt to use a feature that requires them, however the activation state
is based on whether a qualifying license is installed on the client. If
these have been previously activated, and/or users do not have correct
install permissions on their machines, it may be necessary to remove them
to force a reinstall. Does that help?

 

[RickD]

Thanks Gary.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Eglebert:

You are correct that the OWCs, alone, do not do the trick. Anyone can
install these and use the runtime capabilities without a qualifying Office
application, however the best features are reserved for those with the
license. The components are the same, but the activation level differs.

I also agree with the second part of your statement as per my previous post.

 

[Kevin W Flanagan]

Another option would be to use My Network Places and then the user can copy
and paste through Windows Explorer. We have found that are users are more
familiar with Windows Explorer and adjust to this method versus using the
Document Library upload feature.