[OwnCloud] live editing is not reflected for a read-only shared doc

[ainars-sk]

Hi,

If a document is shared without edit/change flags then the live editing does not work on the read-only side - i.e. the user does not see live changes done by other user. So need to close the doc and re-open it again to see the changes done. Is it a known feature or a bug?

If a document is shared with edit/change flag then live editing works as expected - both users can see the live changes.

Wanted to use the OnlyOffice plugin to share live doc editing to a third party who could only view the live editing without an option to edit the shared doc.

OnlyOffice 2.0.3 OwnCloud 10.0.10.4

Thanks

[CarlOnlyoffice]

Hello @ainars-sk This behavior is not a bug. Changes added to the document will not be displayed in real-time in the viewer. However, you don't have to close the document and re-open it, refreshing the page is enough. We are working on new document sharing options, hope we will implement them in one of the future versions of ONLYOFFICE connector.

[SergeyKorneyev]

The live viewer feature is available starting from version 7.2 of the Document Server. It's enabled by default and allows users that open a document in viewing mode to see changes made by other users in real time. The feature can be disabled using the Advanced Settings -> Collaboration -> Show changes from other users option in the editor's interface.

Live viewer has a connections limit separate from editing connections. For example, the open source version of the Document Server has the limit of 20 editing connections and 20 live viewer connections.