Is there any plan create feature, which prevent edit entry by any users, when the same entry is currently edited by other user?

If you assign a different author during an editing session, that should prevent the original author from fiddling with it.

As long as you have that user’s group set up to only edit their own content.

It’s a work flow issue mostly.

Hello Sue,

sure, but I’ve thought about something like “Lock” of the entry while his edit. It doesnt matter, who this entry edits (Super Administrator, User with privilegs…).

Try to explane situation. User with privilegs created entry and then going to edit. In the same time, Admin open the same entry, made corrections and save. After this, user with privilegs finish his slower edit and save the form (after Admin). What happes? User overwritten changes done by Admin.

I want to prevent this situations with an feature, which lock entry while his editing. It not depends on user group or privilegs settings. Iam not sure, if this function is possible configure via Status entry manager.

What you are describing is record locking—I’ve seen it done using Microsoft SQL Server. Not sure how that is done using MySQL.

One thing you could implement is entry versioning, which would help a bit.

There are some significant problems with locking while editing; your session lasts a few hours in the control panel, if one user opened an edit window for an entry and then walked away, did something else, or for whatever reason kept it open that long, no one else would be able to edit that entry for hours.  That’s one reason that wikis, for instance, do not do that type of thing; a malicious user could effectively take over a site by vandalizing an entry and keeping his edits going, preventing anyone from fixing their modifications.  Hopefully you do not have control panel access given to users who would do that type of thing, but even in normal usage, if your authors are not in the same physical room, or talking on the phone or via instant messaging, etc. then it could be very problematic to everyone’s workflow.  And if they are already in the same room, on IM, etc., then they could just be communicating to others what they are working on to start with.  And what about users who open many entries at once in browser tabs?  They could lock out dozens of entries all at once.

If this happens often to your publishers, and they do not communicate with one another, what you can do is perhaps develop an extension that when a user opens an entry to edit it, it ‘flags’ the entry as being worked on.  When they update the entry and save their changes, the flag could be cleared.  When another user opens that entry, if the flag is set, it could display an alert that so-and-so was currently editing this entry and that your changes my overwrite or be overwritten by the other user.

That flag sounds like an excellent idea. I support this FR.

Right Derek, an idea about Flags is better than Lock!

I think, preventing to conflict while editing is very important, but I’m not sure about my programmer skills for creating extension like this ... :-(

it would be great if the control panel would lock a template or weblog entry if one administrator is editing that so that another administrator could not interfere.
even better: make it an optional lock.

possible?

=pirco

I’ve gone ahead and merged your feature request, pirco, with revious one.

great. but I do want to point out that it should also work for templates. we have some larger projects that require multiple admins that work on multiple templates.

thanks

I think I like the flags idea, and I’ve downloaded the edit_alert.zip file for notifying when someone is editing a post.

I also really like the lock idea for administrators editing templates (or at least the same flag idea). I will be working on a site soon with other administrators and this was a concern.

Just as a note, Joomla! has a “Global Check-In” feature which allows an administrator to forcefully check in all content left outstanding (locked).

pirco, in case you missed it: Occupied! (the Edit Alert extension)

Thanks Derek.  I couldn’t remember where it was.