[Pmwiki-users] Autosave on Preview

[Mirko Froehlich]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> What happens if two people are editing the page?  Does it 
> become a hassle to have to worry about action=edit vs. 
> action=editpreview?  If there are multiple people creating 
> stored previews of a page, do they all share the same stored 
> preview?  Note that storing temporary edits in this way would 
> mean that such edits are not part of the page history, and 
> thus would not have a restore capability or the ability to 
> handle simultaneous edits.
> 
> I have more comments on this topic but will write them in a 
> later, broader message.

Sounds good. Overall I was thinking along the same lines as Steven. I'm not
sure whether the preview content should only be accessible using a special
URL (e.g. action=editpreview) or if it should be accessible from the UI,
since PmWiki could automatically alert the user to the fact that a
previously auto-saved page exists if they try to edit a page and the date of
the preview autosave is more recent than that of the actual last edit.

At least speaking for myself, multiple people creating stored previews are
not a concern. Until page locking is implemented, the issues involved don't
seem to be any different than those regarding actual page edits.

-Mirko