Is a "Read Only Mode" possible?
shmatty29 - July 8, 2008 - 12:03
| Project: | Table Manager |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
Hi all, I am currently using table manager to manage an excel spread sheet for basic sales sheet for a company.
This is a feature I would like to add.
Employee 1 logs in and starts making amendment to the table. As an example this takes employee number 1 10 minutes. In this 10 minute window employee number 2 logs in and starts amending the same table. Upon submission one of the employee’s will lose data (the first to submit).
does any one know of a locking system on the sheet/table like “read only” on excel so that the second employee would not be able to even start editing as the sheet/table would be locked when employee number 1 is editing.
Thanks, Matt
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It wouldn't work I'm afraid as even in the 2.x branch where tables *are* created as nodes, the table entries are completely separate entities. This means that even if you lock the table node for editing, the table entries can still be altered. I did play around in the 2.x branch with a locking mechanism linked to the original node, but well it's completely unfinished and since I did that I've changed the way the entries are stored anyway so it's all pretty irrelevant to it now... I really wish I could just take two weeks off work and finish the 2.x branch... It's so much more than the original concept...
I'm going to mark this as postponed as it's something I'll add to the 2.x branch eventually.
Pobster
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