[Vtigercrm-developers] Has anyone addressed this data overwriting issue?

[Joao Oliveira]

On 2/4/06, Mike Crowe <mike at mikeandkellycrowe.com> wrote:
> My adodb updates were related to xmlschema, not this issue.
>
> This is an issue where we do not "lock" the record when we load the
> record in edit mode.  The problem is leaving the record and releasing
> the lock.  Determining how/when to do this must be defined.  For
> instance, if you open a record for editing, and then reboot, close, or
> navigate to another record, how do you release the lock?
>
> Mike
>

i've pointed that in http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?p=19736,
but the idea now is to alert user whe he post data to vtiger in order
to change it. :-/


> >> I would consider any update behaviour beside that a bug, and a potentially
> >> dangerous one at that. Is it this way all over vtiger?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I think we should avoid the possibility of overwriting data that the
> > latest saver never even saw.
> >
> > dkmeans on the forum has proposed "You could I suppose have 3 sets of
> > variables -- the "original" state, the "edited by me" state, and then
> > before you hit save, compare the "original" against the database for
> > anydatabases, and then alert the user -- This record was changed by user
> > X. Continue?"
> >
> > I think this is a good way to go.  In the future 4.3.x tree we need a
> > way to show the data conflict and allow the user to resolve the conflict.
> >

Ok if so, IMO this "feature" should be optional in config.php