Re: [xwiki-users] Attachement checkout
Shiva, If users use XWiki as a way of managing document version then this scenario could happen. I guess it could be a future enhancement to provide checking out/in of documents to prevent other users accidently checking out documents another person is editing. This could be done manually by the users noting in the wiki page that they've checked out one or more documents though it would be better to have this feature built into XWiki. Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Shiva Shankar Sent: 12 May 2008 20:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [xwiki-users] Attachement checkout Hi fellow XWikiers, Am curious to know how you have handled the apparent lack of checkout of attachments. Any insights will be useful on how to handle this scenario. 1. User X creates a page and attaches an Excel spreadsheet 2. User Y then downloads the excel and edits it 3. Before Y can upload the new version, X downloads it again and updates the excel 4. User Y uploads the excel Of course, X and Y can see what changed between the versions using tools provided by Excel but this is not very intuitive. Regards, Shiva _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) 1749 672081 and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. A business of Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273
We can't automatically mark downloaded attachments as checked out (not because it is impossible, but because it is not something we want). It can be done using a custom velocity template for the attachment list, so that a user can click on a "mark as checked out" link next to the attachment, and other users will see who has checked out a document. goldring, richard wrote:
Shiva,
If users use XWiki as a way of managing document version then this scenario could happen.
I guess it could be a future enhancement to provide checking out/in of documents to prevent other users accidently checking out documents another person is editing. This could be done manually by the users noting in the wiki page that they've checked out one or more documents though it would be better to have this feature built into XWiki.
Regards,
Richard
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Shiva Shankar Sent: 12 May 2008 20:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [xwiki-users] Attachement checkout
Hi fellow XWikiers,
Am curious to know how you have handled the apparent lack of checkout of attachments. Any insights will be useful on how to handle this scenario.
1. User X creates a page and attaches an Excel spreadsheet 2. User Y then downloads the excel and edits it 3. Before Y can upload the new version, X downloads it again and updates the excel 4. User Y uploads the excel
Of course, X and Y can see what changed between the versions using tools provided by Excel but this is not very intuitive.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi Sergiu, Makes sense. Attachments are not very "Wiki like". Thanks Shiva Sergiu Dumitriu-2 wrote:
We can't automatically mark downloaded attachments as checked out (not because it is impossible, but because it is not something we want). It can be done using a custom velocity template for the attachment list, so that a user can click on a "mark as checked out" link next to the attachment, and other users will see who has checked out a document.
goldring, richard wrote:
Shiva,
If users use XWiki as a way of managing document version then this scenario could happen.
I guess it could be a future enhancement to provide checking out/in of documents to prevent other users accidently checking out documents another person is editing. This could be done manually by the users noting in the wiki page that they've checked out one or more documents though it would be better to have this feature built into XWiki.
Regards,
Richard
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Shiva Shankar Sent: 12 May 2008 20:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [xwiki-users] Attachement checkout
Hi fellow XWikiers,
Am curious to know how you have handled the apparent lack of checkout of attachments. Any insights will be useful on how to handle this scenario.
1. User X creates a page and attaches an Excel spreadsheet 2. User Y then downloads the excel and edits it 3. Before Y can upload the new version, X downloads it again and updates the excel 4. User Y uploads the excel
Of course, X and Y can see what changed between the versions using tools provided by Excel but this is not very intuitive.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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