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Mac OS X  |  Business / Productivity  |  Planning / Project Management  |  OmniOutliner Pro  |  Still no servable version or locking of open docs

OmniOutliner Pro

OmniOutliner Pro

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Version:  3.9.3

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Still no servable version or locking of open docs

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Contributed by: Otter2 Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 06:35 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

I'm a licensed user with 8 licenses for OO Pro which I use in my estate planning law office for a variety of tasks, all of which involve project management, process control and checklists to make certain that we don't forget to do anything.

I am astounded that after all the years of development, and several requests to make OO docs servable or at least lock themselves to other users when they are opened, that I can open a document on one machine, have another user open the same doc on their machine, make changes to the document on my machine and save them, have the other user make changes to the document on their machine and save them which will overwrite the changes I've made and saved. But for the fact that all the users in my office know about this glaring defect in an otherwise great product, this oversight could create a disaster for us if some checklist item got deleted by a second user opening and modifiying a document that another user had opened first.

OO is a great organizer, but only for one person at a time. And I think it's time I looked for a project management package that is servable.

otter

  

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Still no servable version or locking of open docs - Brass Hammer

I have long believed that Omni is operated by a bunch of hackers who write what they can figure out how to do, and ignore what they cannot. There are many examples, and this is but one. OmniOutliner is an acceptable application, however, there are many features that could be available quite easily, and should be available, but are not.

I'm telling you. They are amateurs over there.

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Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 07:28 AM PDT