massgov / massgov/feature-requests
Lock a content type when someone is working on it
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Description
Currently two or more users are allowed to open and work on the same content type at the same time. This often results in someone’s hard work being overwritten. Can content types either be locked when someone’s editing a page?
thank you Mike O
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are mentioned. Start by locating the content-type page editing flow and determine how concurrent editing is handled. Done should mean that simultaneous users cannot overwrite each other's content, with the locking behavior verified in an appropriate test.
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- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100