Force checkout not working with Edit (link to edit item) column in SP2010

Question

Could someone be so kind as to check the following in their 2010 environments.

1. Create a doc library
2. Turn on force check-out
3. Turn on versioning.
4. Add the "Edit (link to edit item)" column to the default view.
5. Now upload a document and check it in.
6. Use the Edit column to edit the properties.

You should see:

You must check out this item before making changes. Do you want to check out this item now?

Clicking OK, would normally check the document out and take you to the edit form (in a dialog in sp2010 if dialogs set to yes for library).

However in two environments of mine, nothing happens anymore!!!!

On live I tested tested a new library in an existing site, a new library in a new site, and an existing library in a migrated site (from 2007).

Strangely I found one document library in a migrated site which DOES STILL WORK but why this one library works is puzzling me!! The issue is new libraries don't work and that seems to confuse me more!

Again, I tried new libraries in two SharePoint environments and same behaviour.

Anyone?

Answer 1

I had the same problem on my environment. I found a solution for it - you need to edit the xsl template for the 'Edit' column.

Here is part of the original code:

<xsl:when test="$hasRight = '1'">
    <a href="{$FORM_EDIT}&amp;ID={$ID}" onclick="EditItemWithCheckoutAlert(event, '{$FORM_EDIT}&amp;ID={$ID}', '{$requiresCheckout}', '{$thisNode/@IsCheckedoutToLocal}', '{$thisNode/@FileRef.urlencode}', '{$HttpVDir}', '{$thisNode/@CheckedOutUserId}', '{$Userid}');return false;" target="_self">
      <img border="0" alt="{$thisNode/../@Edit}" src="/_layouts/images/edititem.gif"/>
    </a>
</xsl:when>

And here is the one I am using:

<xsl:when test="$hasRight = '1'">
    <a href="{$FORM_EDIT}&amp;ID={$ID}" onclick="EditItemWithCheckoutAlert(event, '{$FORM_EDIT}&amp;ID={$ID}', '{$requiresCheckout}', '{$thisNode/@IsCheckedoutToLocal}', '{$thisNode/@FileRef.urlencodeasurl}', '{$HttpVDir}', '{$thisNode/@CheckedOutUserId}', '{$Userid}');return false;" target="_self">
      <img border="0" alt="{$thisNode/../@Edit}" src="/_layouts/images/edititem.gif"/>
    </a>
</xsl:when>

Notice how the 5th parameter in the javascript function EditItemWithCheckoutAlert in my version is $thisNode/@FileRef.urlencodeasurl while the orginal is just $thisNode/@FileRef.urlencode

Here is the difference in rendering (example):

original: %2FLibrary%2FBSORU%2FMDM%2Fsb%20avatar%2Epng

my version: /Library/BSORU/MDM/sb%20avatar.png

I did not test this very thoroughly, but it worked for a few check-ins/outs. Hopefully this will work on your environment too.

EDIT: I saw this solution had some problems with non-latin characters and changed the parameter to just $thisNode/@FileRef - this doesn't encode the location or filename.