[Pmwiki-users] Edit / Lock Pages

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Tue Jan 27 09:24:18 CST 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:40:48PM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> 
>    What if more than one person tries to edit a page at one time?
> 
>    Answer:   Just  have  a  flag on the page that says it's being edited.
>    When  you click the EDIT button, it gets turned ON, and when you click
>    SAVE the flag is turned OFF.

As Scott mentions, the biggest problem with this approach is that people
will request edits but then change their mind and abandon the edit (it's
quite common), so the flag will often be "ON" even when nobody is editing
the page.  The archived discussion on this begins at
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2003-August/001125.html

>    I  think  this  should  be  a  priority  to  fix since the question is
>    continually asked, it must be a popular topic, and worth fixing sooner
>    than later.

Cast your vote at http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Development/DevelopmentPriority
(and note that this is already slated to be fixed in a 0.6.x release :-).

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