SID-01647: Multi-User support for EditTablePlugin

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.8
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	RH	Last update:	13 years ago

We have a page that has several EDITTABLE entries. This page is used by a group of users to complete an end of week reporting. The scenario we see is:

- open a page with a table which uses EditTablePlugin

- open the same page on another browser window

- on the first page, "edit" the table and add a row, save

- on the second page, without refreshing it, "edit" the table and add a row, save

- now the modifications done in the first page are lost

Is there a workaround for multi-user edits on the same table?

-- Peter Jones - 2013-03-01

Discussion and Answer

How about using separate topics for each table, and include those topics into master topic? That way when a user hits edit on a table, she is editing the topic where the single table is. Hence you avoid the edit conflict situation.

Alternatively, create a TWikiForms based app with a status field. Based on the status you can show a record on one or the other table.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-03-05

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.