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know if another user is editing an item?

  

The LINCKS system will notify you. When some part of an information component is edited, the database marks that information component as edited by that user. If another user then retrieves that object, s/he is notified that the object is already being edited (see figure 2.1). If the second user then begins editing the same object, the first user will then receive notification that another user has started editing some object s/he was already editing (see figure 2.2). In both cases, the background of the items involved is shaded to indicate which object it is (see figure 2.3). 

 


:  `Another user is already editing' notification

 


:  `Somebody started editing one of your edited objects' notification

 


:  Window shading for parallel editing



Martin Sjolin
Mon May 29 19:53:45 MET DST 1995