Working Offline

There are occasions when you may want to take your working project offline. This is convenient if you are planning to edit your documents at home or on a trip.

  1. Open the working copy of the project.
  2. Click the Go Offline button in the Team Authoring panel. The Go Offline dialog opens.

  3. Choose the offline mode:

    • Restricted Project Editing You can add items to the project but cannot modify items that existed on the server at the time you went offline. When you go back online, Doc-To-Help will merge the changes made by other team members while you were offline.

    • Unrestricted Project Editing Unrestricted changes to the project cannot be merged with other team members while you were offline. When you go online, you will be prompted either to check out the project to send your version of the project to the server (that can cause others to lose their changes) or to undo your changes.

  4. Click OK. If you chose Restricted Project editing, the Unrestricted Project Editing button will appear in the Team Authoring tab. It lets you change your mode if you wish.
  5. Edit the documents.
  6. To return to online mode, click the Go Online button. In TFS projects, the Go Online dialog opens and displays the changes that occurred while offline. If you approve, click Go Online.

Note If you check out or lock any documents before going offline, you will prevent other members of the team from editing those files until you check them back in.

Note If you need to completely disconnect your working copy from team authoring support, the administrator must detach the project. See Removing Team Authoring Support From a Working Copy.

Note For other tasks, see Working in a Team Project.