On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:37:14 PM UTC+1, Jens wrote:
>
> On Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:58:11 AM UTC+1, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's even better than that ;-)
>> The user has to click a "lock" button to be able to edit the objects 
>> (creates a working copy). The form then switches to read/write mode and the 
>> "save" button appears. But the save button only saves changes to the working 
>> copy; there's a distinct "unlock" button that overwrites the "public copy" 
>> with the "working copy" (and another "free" button to "unlock" the "public 
>> copy" and simply discards the "working copy").
>> A user can keep his working copy for days, or even weeks or months.
>>
>
> Uhh..so if I work on my private copy for 2 weeks and then unlock it to 
> update the public copy, a second user can destroy my work by unlocking his 
> copy a day later and thus overwriting my 2 weeks of work? :) Having working 
> copies is a nice idea but merging them back into one public copy seems 
> tricky. But of course it depends on the application.
>

There's no need to merge, because when you do a working copy, you're locking 
the public version. The idea of a working copy is that you work in private, 
and the public version stays the same until you "publish" your work.

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