Hi,
Actually, the solution you suggest is already the case - the selection of a
number only happens when the user hits "Save" or "Preview", not when the
user first gets to the form. My guess is that the edit conflict occurred
because one user hit "Preview" and then inspected the page for a while, and
someone else saved another form during that time. That's still a problem,
although obviously a smaller one.
-Yaron
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Patrick Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> today I thought I'd try what happens when two users create a page with a
> form
> at the same time. The form contains <unique number> in its {{{info}}}.
>
> This is what currently (SF 1.3.3) happens:
> User A opens the form - a unique number (42) gets chosen by the form.
> During
> all the time user A fills in the form another user B may open the same form
> to
> create a page. Because the number 42 is still available, user B's form will
> happily choose it. The user who presses the Save button first gets the page
> saved - but the second (and third, etc.) gets an Edit Conflict, which the
> casual form user probably doesn't know (and shouldn't need to know) how to
> resolve.
>
> Note that this is not a thing that will happen only in theory. Especially
> with
> larger forms, it may take several minutes to complete one form.
>
> I see two solutions to this problem: SF should either choose the number on
> pressing the Save button (preferred - but what to do when the user presses
> the
> Preview button?), or "reserve" the page on opening the form - but I guess
> that's harder to implement without saving the page, which would be a waste
> in
> case the user decides to not complete the form and just leave the page.
>
> Yaron, what do you think?
>
> Patrick.
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