Locking options

We are running 6.7.1 SP1 on Solaris and have been noticing an interesting locking issue. We are doing a lot of local development on our PCs and downloading/uploading into TeamSite. If we download the entire site locally to PC through launchpad, change a file, then upload the changed file, TeamSite locks every local file downloaded from that branch. Is this the expected behavior as I would assume it should only lock the changed file. Has anyone else run into this scenario?

Thanks,
Dan

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nipper

Nope that is the default locking mechanism. Same with edit a DCR, the lock goes on when you start, not when you save (though that has changed in 7.X for DCRs)

Think about this scenario: You and I both download a file to edit. The first one uploads and locks the file. #2 is SOL.

Now it is a pain because people tend to click edit and cancel which does not release the lock.

HTH

Andy

dann

Thats not the real problem. Say I have a folder of css/js and I download that for preview on my local apache. I change 1 css file and everything I have downloaded form that branch is locked when I upload the one changed file. I would expect the file I changed to be locked, but not everything else.

Bhargav Coca

Thats not the real problem. Say I have a folder of css/js and I download that for preview on my local apache. I change 1 css file and everything I have downloaded form that branch is locked when I upload the one changed file. I would expect the file I changed to be locked, but not everything else.

It should not lock all the file, on the contrary what we noticed is, say you have submitted the whole folder and all the files in it. So all appear with out any lock or pencil on them. But when a particular file is edited and saved, a lock appears on that file and rest of the files show a pencil on them.

Try doing that again, submit all the files in the folder to stage, try editing the file and see if other files are locked when you save this file.

Thank You

Adam Stoller

Thats not the real problem. Say I have a folder of css/js and I download that for preview on my local apache. I change 1 css file and everything I have downloaded form that branch is locked when I upload the one changed file. I would expect the file I changed to be locked, but not everything else.

Are you "downloading" or "editing" (and thus also downloading) the file(s) in question?

Pre 7.x (perhaps 7.2.x - don't remember right now) - anytime you clicked the "Edit" link / button / menu option - the file in question was locked before being downloaded (or brought up in a UI like a DCR) - but the fact that you are then taken to the File Download Manager UI (previously known as LaunchPad) when you did that - you may not have noticed that the files were already marked as locked until after you uploaded them and when back to the main TS GUI.

If you are truly talking about using the File > Download option - then no - the files shouldn't be locked when you download them - and I'm not sure they even get locked when you upload them.

nipper

how are you downloading it ? I clicked download on a folder with 130 images (TS 6.7.1 DOS) and it downloaded them without making locks.

dann

Yes, we are downloading, which creates no locks, which is the desired result. The problem is that on upload or inport of 1 file from that group, all are locked.

Thanks,
Dan

nipper

OK, I just tried it and the one file I uploaded was locked, nothing else.

You may want to talk to support because that certainly is a bug if they can reproduce it.

mart2001

Are you using a Mac?

With all those annoying updates to Firefox, I have seen where someone download the files, edit 1 or 2 file(s), upload the file(s) back, then the locks appear on all the files downloaded. I have seen it on Firefox 3.6.13, but not don't seem to be a problem with Firefox 3.5.x.