Hello All,

We have a Planning Applications and Land Charges system which is used by
about 10 people simultaneously for editing certain key tables.  We have a
suite of mapbasic front-end applications developed by an external consulting
firm.  At present we experience a number of problems with users being locked
out of the key MapInfo tables when committing changes.  The code is actually
written to allow users to open the tables, make edits locally, and then
commit the changes in one go to the key table, thus preventing unsaved edit
files and wholesale table-locking.

Unfortunately, whilst this has helped to reduce the problem to a large
degree, it has not eliminated it.  Spatialware is an option being considered
to permit record-locking on the table in an effort to solve the problem,
however, with Spatialware only being deployed with Oracle, Informix and DB2
back-ends, it is not a favoured solution in our organisation where none of
these are supported.  A SQLserver back-end database would be acceptable.

My question is that I can't believe that other local authorities or
organisations are not using MapInfo in a similar way with success, has
anybody out there had any similar problems, or do any developers have any
previous experience of solving similar problems.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew Hayes
GIS Analyst/Programmer
Wakefield MDC
> Web:   http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: 01924-(30)5440
Fax: 01924-(30)5424

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