File sharing, locking, etc... between multiple users...

[Jim Ault]

On further thought on the record locking..
It might be possible for you to take the approach that the real field is
never edited real time, but only a temp field that is later processed in the
time sequence (the seconds) 'submitted' in an orderly event loop.  This way,
4 users could be editing the "same field" while seeing that other users are
doing likewise ("chat room style").

This is especially valuable in an office where a user starts to edit a
field, gets phone call,  heads to a meeting....  or just switches to another
program to look for the info to put into the field and forgets to come back
to hit the enterKey.  In old FileMaker, workers were often walking around
trying to find out who was 'still' editing that field and not back from
lunch yet.

Just a thought.

Jim  Ault
Las Vegas


On 2/16/06 6:53 AM, "Jonathan Lynch" <jonathandlynch at gmail.com> wrote:

> The company my wife works for is starting to use Task Mage, because they got
> fed up with MS Project
> 
> This is great, because it gives me a customer driven process for further
> development of Task Mage.
> 
> 
> One of the things they need is to be able to have shared use of tasks, which
> are stored at a remote location and accessed via FTP. This is all very
> doable, and I have made good progress in setting this up.
> 
> But wow, sharing and locking files gets very complicated. The basic model is
> simple, but the details, and cascading changes involved are just a huge pain
> in the bahonkus.
> 
> That's it, that's all I wanted to say... Just venting as parts of my brain
> ooze out of my ears.
> 
> Jonathan
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