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Anonymous
April 11, 2012
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Possible to disable SharePoint check-in/out prompt without disabling all SharePoint integration

  • April 11, 2012
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Hello,

While the article "What's New in Acrobat X, Version 10.1" (http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfitmatters/2011/06/whats-new-in-acrobat-x-version-10-1.html) claims as a new feature the ability to disable the SharePoint check-in/check-out prompt, I cannot find any options for this in the Acrobat X 10.1 application, and furthermore, in response to a user question on this topic, instructions are given to edit a registry key to disable the SharePoint integration features, as below:

     "Create a new key “cSharePoint” at “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown”

     In this key, create a new DWORD Value “bDisableSharePointFeatures”

     Set its value to 1"

My question is: Is it possible to disable the SharePoint check-in/check-out prompt only, as suggested by the above article, without disabling all of the SharePoint integration features (as the registry edit would do)?

Many Thanks

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    ombacke
    Participant
    July 30, 2014

    Hi guys,

    Have you ever had an answer regarding this issue??

    dgianne
    dgianne
    Participant
    May 26, 2015

    Best work-around I've found is to use the "send to" and publish it to a library the audience can reach.  That seems to work.

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    PDFlores
    Participant
    June 26, 2014

    What we have found that has made some difference with SharePoint 2013 and Adobe XI, was also having MS Office 2013. Now, why would having MS Office 2013 make a difference? I do not know but it seems to make things a bit easier.

    Also - what I have done to bypass the check out (even if the doc library is not set to check-in, check-out) is after opening the pdf document (opens as a temp internet file), make my changes, then File, Save As, and then save either by saving to the shortcut I made under Favorites (to the SP Library) in Window Explorer or by Saving to Online Account (location already mapped) after clicking on Save As.

    Still don't know what the fix is to not have it open as a temporary internet file.

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    PatWeg
    Participant
    October 2, 2012

    I'm facing the same problem. We use Acrobat Reader X for adding comments to PDf-files, but most of the time the user only wants to read the document.

    So he likes to open the document without the dialog to checkout the document or just open it.

    After opening the PDF the Sharepoint Integration must be available to check out the document.

    Disable the SP Integration in the registry also removes the Sharepoint Integration menu in the Acrobat Reader X.

    Is there some news on this issue or how can we configure this requirement ?

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      rudhar
      Participant
      October 24, 2012

      The fact that we can't disable the check-out option has actually become such a big nuisance that we had to invest in other PDF reading software. People continually select the default action of checking out, thereby blocking other organisation users! this  places huge pressure on IT to run around and force uncheck-out files.

      this is the worst feature I've ever seen with Adobe, since it cannot be disabled in any setting anywhere!!

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        Jonas, Switzerland
        Participant
        September 23, 2020

        These folks have been dormant since 2012! Really, I don't know, what kind of people are working at Adobe!Please get this done!

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          Anonymous
          April 18, 2012

          Hi,

          The option to disable SharePoint Integration via registry entry disables all of SharePoint integration. There is no way to "disable" the check-out prompt only. I'm not sure what you mean by just disabling the prompt, but i'm guessing that you mean something like "Always check out on open" type of functionality should be supported. If that's the case, you may submit a feature request for it.

          Thanks.

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            Anonymous
            April 23, 2012

            Hi Richa,

            Thanks for your response, this confirms what I thought.

            Sorry I wasn't totally clear in the first instance, the article I was referring to used the phrase "Disable Check-Out Prompt" which sounds like it is specific to the Check-Out prompt, not all of the SharePoint integration features.

            What I mean is that Adobe Acrobat X prompts for check-out, regardless of whether the relevant SharePoint document library is set to "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited". Users find it confusing that they have set this option to "No", but Acrobat still prompts them to check-out documents when they attempt to edit them.

            It seems that Acrobat does not take this setting into account when editing documents from SharePoint document libraries, is this correct?

            If this is the case, I will submit a feature request to have this functionality enabled.

            Thanks.

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