It was a "marketing bullet point" that was granted larger significance than it 
deserved in my tired mind

It's importance may yet be inflated by my users or management, but I think RT's 
other strengths will win through

thanks,
al;


On Jun 30, 2014, at 2:35 AM, Alex Peters <[email protected]> wrote:

> RT doesn't notify two users if they have both entered an editing screen for 
> the same ticket, as you've discovered.
> 
> I'm not sure that many people generally see this as an issue though.  If two 
> people add commentary to the ticket, both comments are kept.  If two people 
> edit a ticket's fields at the same time, although the edits by the first 
> person to submit are lost at the top, records of both sets of edits are 
> permanently saved in the ticket's history.  In my eight years using RT across 
> five different installations, no one has ever raised this as an issue.
> 
> Is this strictly just a "what if" scenario for you, or is it causing 
> problems?  If it's causing problems, I'd love to know exactly how so that I 
> can avoid those problems in my setups.  I also wonder whether in your case, 
> (company and/or RT) policy changes could help—e.g. "only ticket owners may 
> modify a ticket's fields."
> 
> 
> On 28 June 2014 07:02, Al Joslin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was asked by one of my users, what happens if two people are editing a 
> ticket at the same time ?
> 
> Our current system, that I'm trying to replace, tells users when another user 
> is editing the same ticket
> 
> I tried editing one ticket with two users at the same time -- I could see no 
> notice/indication that someone else was modifying that same ticket
> 
> I've searched the web/wiki/docs -- I don't see anything about it
> 
> I can't believe the most used ticketing software in the world can't/doesn't 
> protect against multiple users editing the same ticket at the same time
> 
> what am I missing ?
> 
> Al;
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