On Friday 13 January 2012 01:34:08 pm James Harrison wrote:
>  Are there 
> any workflows which would be broken by making this the default 
> behaviour,

 OK, I want to do this, and then that, then the other thing.
 Oh, wait, I didn't really want to do that, so I reload without save,
 getting back to where I started.
 That's what you've broken.

> or do I need to look at making this a configurable option?

 I ( as long time readers know ) *always* vote for configurable,
 preferably by admin.

> I   
> can't immediately think of any issues this could cause and suspect that 
> this would actually be a nice change for everyone in terms of ease of 
> use in any case.

 This is usually the kind of thing that causes unintended consequences
 to become manifest with catastrophic results, for someone.
 Such is *why* I always vote configurable.

 Frankly, it seems a better behaviour would be to check before
 saving that what was loaded still matches what would be loaded now.
 If different, someone else changed something that may conflict.
 Toss up a warning.
 If no changes have appeared, then lock, save, unlock.

-- 
Cowboy

http://cowboy.cwf1.com

Justice is incidental to law and order.
                -- J. Edgar Hoover

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