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As a site owner, you can control whether people see the names of people who view files or pages on a site, as long as your organization-level sharing settings allow it. Go to your Microsoft SharePoint site. and then select Site information.
Go to Library Settings>Manage files which have no checked in versions under Permissions and Management>check if the file is there>If yes, take ownership of it and then try to check it in.
How do I force a document to check in SharePoint?
Go to the Document Library Settings and click on “Manage files which have no checked in version”. You can manage the checked out files here to force check out it to yourself, then check it in.
Why is a document locked in SharePoint?
This is because when a document is opened by a client program, Windows SharePoint Services puts a write lock on the document on the server. The write lock times out after 10 minutes. Users cannot modify the document during the time when the document is locked.
PowerApp lists all documents in the library. Users would request access to any document through this PowerApp. Once requested, PowerApp + Flow would grant access to the document, or even send the document to the requestor via email. The flow would send a notification when a file in a SharePoint document library is requested for the first time.
Why is there no way to check if a file is open?
It appears that on Windows you may be unable to use FileLock if another application has opened the file in a particular way. Even if you did manage to use FileLock or something else, you’ve still got the problem that something may come in and open the file between you testing the file and doing the rename.
How to check if an Excel workbook is already open?
If the spreadsheet is already open in an existing Excel instance, I would prefer not to create a new instance. I found a great answer here that I built on: http://www.dbforums.com/microsoft-access/1022678-how-check-wether-excel-workbook-already-open-not-search-value.html