Re: [Xsltforms-support] getting exclusive lock when editing

2014-02-17 Thread peter winstanley
Hi DanThis is really useful - thanks. I have used the 'lock file' method, but there is always the need to cater for people leaving the office for a week's holiday and the lock files are not released.  There need to be other housekeeping functions in this scenario.I see that some NXD such as eXi

Re: [Xsltforms-support] getting exclusive lock when editing

2014-02-17 Thread Dan McCreary
Hello Peter, I think you may be referring to the problem that often comes up is that two people are trying to update the same record at the same time with an XForms application. This is in general known as "Concurrency Control" and locking is really only one option. The problem is that the secon

[Xsltforms-support] getting exclusive lock when editing

2014-02-17 Thread peter winstanley
Hi List I know it's marginally off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone had a good illustration or design pattern of getting an exclusive lock on a native XML DB file from an XSLTForm to prevent write collisions? Kind regards Peter