Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Monday 29 Sep 2008, Ian Skinner wrote: >> connected to receive content. The closest you can get with these >> technologies is to regularly pull updated data from the client. I.E. >> Set a function on the client to check the server for new

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

On Monday 29 Sep 2008, Ian Skinner wrote: > connected to receive content. The closest you can get with these > technologies is to regularly pull updated data from the client. I.E. > Set a function on the client to check the server for new data every X > seconds. There are actually several ways t

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

thanks for your advice iain. its a good idea with the original value except with this software there is alot of data on some pages (grids and trees etc...) thanks again, really do appreciate your advice and input richard >I don't know if this is easier or not... but it is what I've done whe

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

I don't know if this is easier or not... but it is what I've done when worried about 'brown' data. When a user views a data set for editing, keep of a copy of the data as they received it, probably in a session variable. Then when they submit changes to this data, compare the 'original state'

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

hi, we were thinking that we could have an application variable that stores the state of the data, for example if it has not changed then it is set to 'no change', else if it is processing a request then it would be set to 'processing', and if it has finished processing and no errors occurred

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

thanks for your advice Ian, i thought we may be missing something and that there was a common way people handled this through ColdFusion; so it looks like we are going to have to add some form of page locking or content updater function as you suggested. thanks for your advice richard >You ca

Re: concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

You can not do this with basic HTTP/HTML/AJAX level technology. There is no connection between the server and any client that recently connected to receive content. The closest you can get with these technologies is to regularly pull updated data from the client. I.E. Set a function on the

concurrent users and filtering data down to other users

hi, we cannot seem to find any discussion on the internet regarding this issue. this is regarding multiple users looking at a page where data can be changed by those users, and we want the data changes to filter to the other people looking at the data? is there any general disdussions on this?