How to Transfer Ownership of a GroupWise Document.

(Last modified: 05Feb2004)

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Document author cannot edit document

You do not have edit rights for this document. You may view a read-only copy of the document

moved user cannot edit documents

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Novell GroupWise 5.5

Novell GroupWise Document Management

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Option 1: For individual documents:
1) As the owning user or librarian right click on the document.
2) Select Properties.
3) Change the Author field to the new owners id.

Option 2: For mass documents:
1) As the owning user or librarian select Tools | Mass Document Operations.
2) Operation: Change properties.
3) Selection method: Use Find by Example to select documents.
4) Enter the current owning Authors id. Select Next.
5) Enter the desired users id in the Author field. Select Next.
6) Verify results and Perform the change.

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If the document author cannot edit his own documents you can try the above steps to re-assign ownership of the document.

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Document Title:	How to Transfer Ownership of a GroupWise Document.
Document ID:	10025598
Solution ID:	1.0.51387349.2510829
Creation Date:	26Jan2000
Modified Date:	05Feb2004
Novell Product Class:	Groupware

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