admin mutiple editors working: page lost

[FinnK]

Today we had this incidence: one person with editor rights was editing an existing page. At the same time I was changing the order of pages for pages below this page in the page list, bringing a page towards the top. Suddenly the page being edited dissapeared from the list and was never to be found again. When this page was created the second time the system would not save the new page because tha alias still was occupied - had to change alias to save it.

Is there a need for me to check for possible errors that might cause troubles in the future because of this?

How is CMSMS supposed to handle situations where there might be several editors working with pages?

[Ted]

CMSMS doesn't really have any checks like this in place.  It's actually a pretty complicated thing to do in a web environment.

Page locking is probably the easiest way, but it's still tricky.  Mainly, the issue comes with not knowing when a person stops editing a page.  There is a very good chance they'll hit one of the 4 buttons at the bottom, but they don't have to.  If they just hit a menu item and never remove the page lock, it's going to have to wait until a timeout happens.

Needless to say, this is a future feature. 

[FinnK]

Do you think this or similar editing crasches can disturb the system (database, administration etc) and make it unstable in some way?

[Ted]

Yes.  If a page is edited while a page is moved, that could cause an instability.  Basically the hierarchy will get out of sync.  About the only thing we could do is double check right before a save to make sure the same page is in the same position and if not, fail out.  It wouldn't be pretty, though.

[FinnK]

Is there an "easy" way to check and clean (I presume it's..)  the database for inconsistencies? I got the message that the lost page's alias was in use...