Concurrent edits overwriting existing changes?
Editme is supposed to have concurrent editing.
But we've had several cases where users have had a wiki page open, someone else edited it, and when the first user went to edt it, the other user's pages were over-written. Are there some specific ways to avoid losing changes?
Posted at 8:12 AM on August 21, 2008
wbudreau,
The concurrent editing feature works as described on the Current Editing page of this site. (search this site for "concurrent" - it's the first hit)
Note: If you have multiple users logged in with the same user name, it will not work. Each user has to be logged in with their own user account.
You can test it by logging in as two different users with two different browsers. For example, log in as user1 in Firefox and user2 in Internet Explorer. Or you can use two different computers. If you find an example where it does not work, please provide the detailed steps you took so we can try to reproduce the behavior.
Cheers,
Matt
Posted at 10:30 AM on August 21, 2008
I was able to trivially reproduce.
1) log into IE with a test user
2) Log into firefox as myself
3) View SandBox on both pages on our site
4) Click edit on both (url for both is <site>/_Edit?page-id=Sandbox&page-version=6#content )
4) Add the text "first edit" in IE, press save
5) Add the text "second edit" in FireFox, press save
End result - only see the "second edit" text"
In the diff between versions 8 and 7, I see that "First Edit" was replaced with "Second Edit"
I should have expected to see both sets of text, or a warning when submitting the FireFox window.
Posted at 8:15 AM on August 24, 2008
Sorry - I'm not sure what site you're referencing. Can you provide a full link to the page that exhibited this behavior?
Posted at 8:56 AM on August 25, 2008
http://westsoftware.editme.com/Sandbox
Posted at 9:03 AM on August 25, 2008
I was able to confirm and duplicate the errant behavior on that page - likely a something related to the recent update. Expect a fix within the next day or two. Thanks for pointing this out.
Posted at 10:33 AM on August 25, 2008
wbudreau,
A fix for this issue was posted last night.
Cheers,
Matt
Posted at 8:06 AM on August 26, 2008
Merges and conflict blocking work for a test minor edit, thanks for fixing this so quickly. This has been a problem for a while according to our team, so I'm happy to see it resolved. Now I just have to get our developers trusting that it actually works!
Posted at 8:48 AM on August 26, 2008
I got a "concurrent editing conflict" error. On the 'versions' section of the page under description is says: Content Changed: "Concurrent Editing Conflict"
Posted at 7:43 PM on November 9, 2008