Funnily enough this issue has been happening a lot to me the past week. We have multiple content editors trying to do work and some people have left items locked by mistake. But for how long? Don't know, so there are a lot of confused people trying to track others the person who locked it, explain the issue, then the content editor isn't sure, scratches their head, and finally as a last resort logs into the system to check the same thing we're trying to check on their locked content... when they locked it. Which of course FarCry doesn't record the info. So, we're all caught in a catch-22. In the end we either have to edit the content and compare it side-by-side with the approved content (wish FarCry could do compare with draft vs approved content) or we just risk it and delete the locked data hoping we didn't lose something important.
Either way, having the locked date would help a lot. +1 (feature request for FarCry 6.1) -- Jeff Coughlin Web Application Developer http://jeffcoughlin.com On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:57 AM, AJ Mercer wrote: > done > http://bugs.farcrycms.org/browse/FC-2250 > > > On 12 April 2010 12:45, Jeff Coughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to agree with AJ on this one. It would be helpful to have the extra > field in the DB and do it correctly. > > In Geoff's defense though, if the feature request was approved it wouldn't > make it into core until at least the next minor version (ie. 6.1) since patch > versions don't have database changes. If you put in the feature request to > have this added to FC6.1, I'll vote for it (+1). Come back here with the > link to the feature request and we'll see how many votes it gets. > > Regards, > > -- > Jeff Coughlin > Web Application Developer > http://jeffcoughlin.com > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:30 PM, AJ Mercer wrote: > > > comment inline > > > > On 12 April 2010 10:12, Geoffrey Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/04/2010, at 8:39 AM, AJ Mercer wrote: > > > yeah - I was wondering about datetimelastupdated too. > > > > > > Can I get confirmation from the team Daemom > > > > > > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Tomek Kott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > couldn't you use "datetimelastupdated" as a proxy? Since FC reads/sets > > > that data at the time it is locked (pretty sure), I think that would be > > > exactly what you're looking for... or am I misunderstanding it? > > > > No, datetimelastupdated should only be updated on an update. Otherwise > > we'd have "touched" the object every time somebody opened an edit handler > > -- even if they hit cancel. > > > > Adding something like a datetimelocked would mean adding it to "types" > > abstract class, which in turn would mean adding it to *every* content type > > for now and forever after. I'm not sure there is enough benefit to the > > user. > > > > But it wouldn't hurt anyone to have this extra detail > > Then in the Object Overview, under Sytem Information, it could be added > > after Last Updated by; with pretty date eg 2 minutes ago or 2 days ago > > > > > > > > A better proxy might be to look at the user who locked it -- which we > > already do. But we could enhance this possibly by looking at whether or > > not the user is logged in, or at least how long ago they logged in. This > > would give you a good handle on whether or not there was a danger of > > overriding their work. > > > > -- geoff > > http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
