[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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