Onedrive setup help

[blue-eye-boy]

Hey there, I need some guidance please.
I'm just starting to use office 2013, windows 8.1 and onedrive. I'm busy setting up stock sheets for our company, to help with planning, ordering, etc.

As I said I have no knowledge on onedrive, and battle to get my head around setting this up to work for me.
In short, I have a tablet which I will install onedrive and excel 2013 on. That will be used to take the stock, so it is immediately on a spreadsheet, saving time. Then I use that data immediately when it is saved, to plan and order.

I want to know, must I create a new account for each pc involved in this, then I just share the files I want with that specific pc or tablet? Then, there is 6 different stock sheets, so I will only start using that info as soon as the person counting saves it. Will that file then automatically update on my laptop in office when I open that particular sheet?

So to break it down; My laptop is the main onedrive account, there will be 1 tablet and 1 pc, each with their own onedrive account. I share the stock taking sheet with the tablet, to take stock in the stock room. I Share the Stock received spreadsheet with the pc, on which stock received will be noted. The tablet stock sheet updates on my laptop as soon as he saves the file. I order according to that stock sheet, saves that file. As soon as stock is received, it gets read in on the pc, and updates on my laptop. At the end of Monday I can check which stock was short delivered, etc.

What do you guys think?

 

[Betonro]

I only have one OneDrive account and use it on both my computers, tablet and my phone. I think you should be able to do the same.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

I only have one OneDrive account and use it on both my computers, tablet and my phone. I think you should be able to do the same.

Yes but thats the thing, only you use it. In my case it will be me. Sharing what the specific pc or tablet needs, and not whats for my eyes only.

 

[DA-LION-619]

Yes but thats the thing, only you use it. In my case it will be me. Sharing what the specific pc or tablet needs, and not whats for my eyes only.

You can mark files/folders as view only or edit and view.

 

[Betonro]

Yes but thats the thing, only you use it. In my case it will be me. Sharing what the specific pc or tablet needs, and not whats for my eyes only.

Ah, I see. In that case, I would set up separate accounts and share a folder between them. I haven't done that with OneDrive though and my suspicion is that you can only do it with OneDrive for business. That is only a suspicion though.

 

[diabolus]

Ah, I see. In that case, I would set up separate accounts and share a folder between them. I haven't done that with OneDrive though and my suspicion is that you can only do it with OneDrive for business. That is only a suspicion though.

No, you can do it with the regular onedrive account, right click on any file in onedrive (in the browser) and click "share" you will see there is a option about "recipients can edit" (click on the text for more options) . They don't even need a onedrive account (this you can decide there too).

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Okay so I got the hang of this somehow. I use the same microsoft account on each pc now, and only upload docs I want to share to everyone.
But, some hickups;
I open a stock sheet on my laptop, edit, save, close.
Open on one of the pc's, edited document is there, edit on that pc, save, close.
That file is available immediately on the laptop, perfect, just as I want.

But I installed office 2013 on my android phone too, and also onedrive. I used my phone for now, just to check how it works, before using the tablet. But the files I open on there with the same microsoft account, isn't updated there, it takes ages, and for this last test of mine, in 20 minutes it didn't update. I edited a copy of the file on the android phone too, and that doesn't get uploaded to the onedrive too. If I save the file, and exit, the words: "Couldn't upload", is displayed underneath the saved file. I switched between mobile data and wifi too, no luck.

What can the problem be? I can't use this method if I'll battle like this always, when speed is the main reason behind this all.