Hi Jean,
I think he's using documentation.libreoffice.org, where AFAIK (from
earlier correspondence on this list) there is no Checkout option as
there is in alfresco.libreoffice.org. AFAIK, none of the choices
available, including "Edit Offline", lock the file so others know it
is being worked on.
On documentation.libreoffice.org, the way to check out a document is
to navigate to the desired doc, then hover your mouse over the doc. To
the right, a menu will appear, with an option "More" at the bottom of
the list. Click on that and you will see at option "Edit offline".
When you choose that option and then download the document to your
local system, the document is indeed locked and flagged as "Editing
started by: xxxxxxxx" (where xxxxxxx is your user name). So the
mechanism is in fact the same, but the terminology is slightly
different.
Once again, this confusion is down to the fact that I/we need to get a
workflow finalized, we maybe need to make a choice between the
Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share interfaces, and then I/we need to
get the docs team contribution documentation up to date, based on
Jeremy's and Jean's excellent work.
I'm currently consulting with Jeff Potts about this, and we'll be
better organized shortly... (Jeremy and Samphan are in on the
conversation)...