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#1 2007-06-28 14:17:23
- FireFusion
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[request] "Currently being edited by" flag
I can see why Article, page or form locking wouldn’t work but if someone could make a plugin that showed an alert message if someone else was editing this resource it would be very helpful. It could have a configurable timeout period where it would disappear if nothing had happened.
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#2 2007-06-28 17:43:55
- Mary
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Re: [request] "Currently being edited by" flag
You could make it work like a checkout system: click a button to check it out/in, and you either get the buttons or a message depending. Then your only worry is making sure to remember to check stuff back in so others know you’re done with it.
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#3 2007-07-01 11:13:46
- FireFusion
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Re: [request] "Currently being edited by" flag
Yeah that could work. What will jQuery add in terms of AJAX functionality? Because I could see it being like a radio button on the right side.
An ExpressionEngine dev just released a plugin that is the sort of thing I was thinking of.
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#4 2007-07-04 21:14:37
- anoke
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Re: [request] "Currently being edited by" flag
Firefusion: inspired by your link I tried making this earlier today. It does some things in a sillyish way inside, but give it a go? It doesn’t do locking, just notifies if someone just opened the same article. Current time window is 5 minutes.
Go to extensions to install the table. If it doesn’t do anything else, it should whine not having one.. Do backup to be on the safe side.
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Re: [request] "Currently being edited by" flag
Hey anoke – thank you for that pluggin – I have it in a test environment at the mo and will let you know how it goes.
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#6 2007-07-09 07:26:15
- FireFusion
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Re: [request] "Currently being edited by" flag
Cool Anoke!
Certainly the sort of thing I’m looking for.
I think this is the first plugin to make use of jQuery.
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