Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Multiple authors editing one sequence - can we prevent simultaneous edits?

By: Ariane Blanch

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Hi Ernie,

Your suggestion is, unfortunately, not going to work in this circumstance. We have several people needing to edit sequences in 2 separate group folders, each with 13 sequences. Multiple versions would very rapidly become unwieldy.

Further, it doesn't actually prevent the problem, it just means we potentially end up with divergent versions, and someone still has to repeat their work to combine the versions together.

It would be excellent if file locking could be turned on or off, because while I can fully appreciate that in many circumstances, the issue of people leaving files open is the most significant, in situations where there is intensive editing being done by several people, it's much easier to manage the problem of left open files than to deal with the constant threat of over writing each other's work, or simultaneously working on the same file in different people's personal folders and then needing to redo the work of at least one of them.

We are having to implement a process of notifications when we are editing files, which is certainly less than ideal.

Thanks,
Ariane

Posted by Ariane Blanch