[Pmwiki-users] Edit / Lock Pages

[Ruediger Marwein]

Hi,

I implemented this feature with a quick hack, writing 

a) a lockfile with time and ip (for each page) and
b) hiding the input area by just displaying a message and current timer 
countdown and
c) removing lock if 1) the editor saves or 2) 10 minutes ran out.

That's a pretty simple way. I didn't do a timer-reset on preview but this 
could be a good idea.

Deciding to merge or deciding to overwrite could be too much responsibility 
for some guys.
Automerge ... does it work properly if 10 people edit the same page at the 
same time? And what if all the 10 changed the same paragraph?

Gr33tZ
Ruediger

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 14:19, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:03:29PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > After thinking about it this afternoon, I'm thinking that whenever
> > a conflict is detected (either because the user pressed "Save" or
> > "Preview"), the user is returned to the edit form with a message warning
> > that someone else has changed the page during the edit session, along
> > with options to (1) Open another window displaying the changes made to
> > the saved page since the beginning of the edit session,
> >   (2) Abandon the edits made thus far and start editing again with the
> >       latest saved version of the page,
> >   (3) Go ahead and overwrite the page with the current contents.
> >
> > I figure this will allow someone to quickly look to see what other
> > changes were made (via #1), and decide if they want to merge the saved
> > changes into their current edit session and save them (#3) or revert to
> > the newly saved page (#2) and add their edits to that one.
>
> Hmm.
>
>     (4) Try to automatically merge the changes and if successful,
>         display the merger in another edit window with the option to
>         save, etc.
>
> ?
>
> -Scott
> --
> Jonathan Scott Duff
> duff at lighthouse.tamucc.edu

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