Checking out and in of reports
Have a "Feature Toggle" to allow reports to be checked in and out.
When downloading you could have a box asking if you want to check the report out. Then when uploading it would automatically check the document in for you.
If you are downloading or uploading a report that has been checked out by another user it could warn you that the report is checked out by another user. It wouldn't stop you downloading or uploading, just a warning. If you are uploading and someone else uploaded a report when you had it checked out it could warn you that someone else had uploaded when checked out by you.
This would be good for ensuring there is no over writing of changes being made. Also when refreshing DEV and UAT environments it would indicate which reports might be wiped.
Ross Galbraith
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Peter van der Woude (CALUMO)
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An interesting requirement Ross.
My additional thoughts:Yes, I think this feature would have to be capable of being switched off - to avoid distracting those who don't need it.
And perhaps watered down a little to make it more generically useful...So I was thinking just:
- a publisher could mark a report as being in a "reserved state" at any time (using Report Vault UI)
- anyone who published (uploaded) while in that state would get a warning, but wouldn't be prevented from publishing
- for extra points -> the publisher who has the report reserved, would get a notification of some kind if a reserved report has a newer version published
