Optimistic Locking - Detecting and Resolving Conflicts Requirements Informing the user that there is a conflict and how to resolve it. Kahlilah presented the group with some scenarios: Scenario - User is not aware that someone else or the system is editing the same record until try to close it. When the user hits Saved/Close, this message could appear: Option 1: You cannot override what was most recently saved with your update. View latest version would allow you to view the latest version of the record. This would take user to Inventory
Option 2: Two options, close or continue to save. "Override" includes if an item is getting checked out.
Asking PO's to review and consider. Jennifer Eustis: "Are there distinctions made between single record update and other data imports?" Ann-Marie - "No" Marmot Office: How "How about another option for save as a new record?" Felix: "Option 2 seems dangerous because the other person does not get any information that their edits are now gone." - Charlotte said, almost all POs were leaning towards Option Jennifer Eustis: "What about changes through the API?" - Also commented that there are various possibilities of conflicts. Rita Albrecht: "The ideal solution would be that the changes of both editing processes would be merged together. Some Systems are able to act like this but because we are discussing I guess FOLIO does not provide such an Option?" Marmot Office: "I want to be able to save my changes in another record. Then I can look at the two records and figure out which to use, or merge them manually." Jennifer and Ann-Marie thought record transfer should be considered as another action that would or should touch optimistic locking scenarios. Scenarios are in link above. Feedback needed: - By Tuesday, September 14
- Of the two options above, which is acceptable for the first version of optimistic locking? If neither works, it will not be in Kiwi.
|