SharePoint 2007 - Remind user of check-out documents

Question

May I know if it is possible to remind user who have check-out a document for a period of time, to check in their document? (I notice that sometime user do forget to check-in their documents, so was wondering if SharePoint can help to remind user to check-in. )

The reminder can appear for every X minutes if the document is still check-out. (where X can be 15 minutes, 30 minutes or etc)

Answer 1

You could create a Console Application in Visual Studio that queries the document libraries for items where the Checked Out To column is not NULL. Then email the users in question with the list of documents they still have checked out.

You could then have the Console Application set to run on the SharePoint Server (as a Windows Scheduled Task) every 15, 30, or 60 minutes, etc.

Answer 2

Check this out May be it is useful to you:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/SPScheduedReminders.aspx