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

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Ariane,

We've thought quite hard about this one when we created the My Groups and Public folders.

The idea to "lock a sequence" while a user was using it sounded very appealing. But then we encounter that if the user just left his computer open or he just closed the computer, the lock on the sequence would continue indefinite and that caused a major headache to all parties involved.

Notifying that other person is editing it, it's similar to locking as the usual behaviour of other editors was to wait for the first editor to finish and they might be waiting for a long time.

Therefore what we thought was the best approach is to have three main folders: Each user private folder, the My Groups folder and the Share all, fully open "Public" folder.

In your private folder you share nothing, therefore you can make sure that the changes you do are just done by you.

On the My Groups and Public, other can also edit your sequence and overwrite them if they save them last.

So my suggestion would be to ask your teachers to make a copy of the sequence they want to edit to their private folder and then edit the private copy. When they are ready to share back, they can move it to the My Groups folder slightly changing the sequence name to let other note that this is their contribution to it.

This way is actually best as you can have some sort of versioning of the original sequence.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione