[Zope] Clarify Locking

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:04:02 -0700


Well you could do that, if a user hasnt made a change in 5 mins say turn off
the lock. Sounds hokey though. Can the if in doubt solve all solution, a
java applet fix this?

--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baum" <rbaum@atinucleus.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>; "Zope List" <zope@zope.org>
Cc: "Yvonne Totty" <ytotty@atinucleus.com>; "Steven Grimes"
<sgrimes@atinucleus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Clarify Locking


> I had actually come up a with a similar solution but I was hoping for a
way to
> let users know that someone else was editing a record so that they would
not
> have to waste time editing it and then have to refresh and try to edit it
again.
>
> Ron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy McKay
> To: Ron Baum ; Zope List
> Cc: Yvonne Totty ; Steven Grimes
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Clarify Locking
>
>
> As suggested this is normally handled at the change time. Put a date stamp
> in the record, when person 2 tries to commit the changes the data the
record
> was last changed will be greater than when it is opened, hence they cant
> commit.
> --
>   Andy McKay.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Baum" <rbaum@atinucleus.com>
> To: "Zope List" <zope@zope.org>
> Cc: "Yvonne Totty" <ytotty@atinucleus.com>; "Steven Grimes"
> <sgrimes@atinucleus.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:48 AM
> Subject: [Zope] Clarify Locking
>
>
> > To clarify my use of the locking.
> >
> > We have an ordering system that all the sales people have access to.  I
am
> > trying to prevent Sales Person #1 from opening an order looking at
> it...Sales
> > Person #2 opening the same order and making a change...Sales Person #1
> saves
> > his/her changes and overwrites Sales Person #2's changes.
> >
> > In addition this system uses legacy data which is in FoxPro free tables
> (this is
> > not my choice).
> >
> > Hope this clarifies my question.
>
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