Title: Concurrent Editing
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Concurrent Editing

 *  Resolved [johandahl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johandahl/)
 * (@johandahl)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/)
 * Hi. Our journalistic students uses arlima but if several students edits at the
   same time will there be conflicts. Is it possibly to set arlima to lock a whole
   list if someone has made a change or opens it in the editor?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/arlima/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/arlima/)

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 *  Plugin Author [victor_jonsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victor_jonsson/)
 * (@victor_jonsson)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396797)
 * Arlima has a revision control system that deals with this issue. The list does
   not get locked when you edit the list, but you will be notified if a newer version
   of the list have been saved while you made your edit. When you save the list 
   an alert dialog will appear and say somehtings in the lines of “Johan saved version
   277 of this list 4 minutes ago, do you still want to save the list?”.
 * You can load older versions of the list (bullet point 21 [in the interface walkthrough](https://github.com/victorjonsson/Arlima/wiki/Interface-walkthrough))
   and manually try to resolve the conflict. This is not an optimal solution, but
   our editors are happy so far.
 * OT: You have gotten me a bit curious, what organisation do you represent Johan?
 *  [jaydokie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaydokie/)
 * (@jaydokie)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396816)
 * Vic, I’ve been thinking and it would be nice to create a menu so that an arlima
   list could be created and menu tabbed to another section of a newspaper. (e.g.
   News, Sports, Gaming (Indian casino news in my case), Law, Resources. Then when
   someone clicks on the menu it would link to the next arlima list page. I know
   it’s not hard to create multiple lists, but not sure how the link to each section(
   News, Sports, Gaming, etc.) would occur. I think that same concept would work
   for the original post on this issue above. Some days I have way too many articles
   to post and it slows down my trying to arrange articles by subject matter.
 *  Plugin Author [victor_jonsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victor_jonsson/)
 * (@victor_jonsson)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396853)
 * Jay, I’m having a hard time understanding what this has to do with the original
   post in this thread. I would gladly discuss the things that you mention but please
   create a new forum post for it.
 * / vic
 *  Thread Starter [johandahl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johandahl/)
 * (@johandahl)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396859)
 * I work at the IT-unit on The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund
   University. We have a [program](http://www.kom.lu.se/utbildning/journalistik/)
   for journalism (is it called that in english) and we uses Arlima in two websites.
   One which is a closed “shadow” of Sydsvenskan and the other one is an open one
   [jolugranskar](http://jolugranskar.kom.lu.se).
 * The students used the closed site for the first time this monday and everything
   went totally bezerk then 20 students edited 5 arlima lists:)
 * I have slightly modified the page template (jolu-page-arlima.php) To get which
   list to show from the url. This was before the latest version were you could 
   select which list to show on a certain page.
 *     ```
       $urlpart = trim(substr(get_permalink(), strlen(get_home_url())), "/");
       if ($urlpart == "") {
       	$urlpart = "frontpage";
       }
       ```
   
 * I also added listing of all the articles with the same category (not present 
   in the arlima list) at the end of the page
 *     ```
       $catID = get_cat_ID($urlpart);
               if ($catID != 0) {
               	query_posts( "cat=" . $catID);
               	while ( have_posts() ) { the_post();
               		if (! in_array($post->ID, $articles_in_arlimalist)) {
               	?>
              		<?php the_date('Y-m-d', '<h2>', '</h2>'); ?>
               	<?php echo get_the_time("H:m"); ?>
               	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
               	<?php the_post_thumbnail(array(48,48), array('class' => 'alignright'));
               		echo get_the_excerpt();
               	?>
               	<span class="catlinks"><?php the_category(', '); ?></span><br>
   
       			<?php
       				} // end if
       			} // end while
               }?>
       ```
   
 * I am very pleased overall with arlima and the only issue so far is the concurrent
   editing. Thanks a lot guys for making this openly available.
 *  Thread Starter [johandahl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johandahl/)
 * (@johandahl)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396860)
 * One question: How does the editorial office handle this situation? Is it one 
   person who edits one list or do they sit in the same room and communicates changes
   or how?
 *  Plugin Author [victor_jonsson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/victor_jonsson/)
 * (@victor_jonsson)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/concurrent-editing/#post-3396891)
 * At vk.se each web editor is responsible of a set of lists. The front page is 
   managed by several web editors but on a schedule so there’s never more than one
   person at the time working with the list. I’m not totally sure how it’s organized
   at the other newspapers (folkbladet.nu and sportnu.se) but I think it’s on rare
   occasions that several editors works simultaneously on a list.
 * We have been thinking of something like a “diff view”, similar to those you can
   use with your common version control system. You would get two lists on the screen,
   yours to the left and the latest version to right, the differences between the
   lists visualized with background colors some how. You would then solve the conflicts
   manually in that view.
 * But since this issue isn’t a problem at our newspapers this feature will get 
   very low priority, it won’t be implemented any time soon.

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