Thursday, March 26, 2009 by Niels Hartvig

The coming version of Concierge which is included in all Umbraco PRO subscriptions extends Umbraco 4 to provide exclusive lock and unlocking of Documents and Media items in Umbraco. Here's a little three minute sneak peak of the feature:

Concierge version 1.2 will available in the beginning of April and is a free upgrade for all existing PRO subscribers.

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4 comment(s) for “Lock and Unlock documents and media with Concierge”

  1. Gravatar ImageChristian Palm Says:
    26 Mar 09 @ 06:43 GMT+1

    Nice one :-)

    I think editors would prefer to be able to click and open locked pages. Just for viewing. (maybe it is just the save button, that should be disabled)

  2. Gravatar ImageIsmail Says:
    30 Mar 09 @ 08:21 GMT+1

    Awesome feature for the small number of people who need this! Are there any plans to put checkin/out on templates / xslt's?

    Regards

    Ismail

  3. Gravatar ImageDan Says:
    31 Mar 09 @ 01:59 GMT+1

    Great feature! Though I wonder whether it would be an idea to have the option of an "auto-checkout" so that whenever anyone has a page open no other use can edit it until the first user has finished (determined by navigating away from the page)?

  4. Gravatar ImageDirk Says:
    31 Mar 09 @ 09:44 GMT+1

    Great feature. I've been doing something similar while you guys were working on this.... It's still a good idea to be able to view the doc even if the item is locked as Christian outlined before

    Some extra thought while I was implementing this feature:

    * Cancelling events such as Save/Save and Publish are not correctly implemented. Cancel check is performed after general properties have changed...too late

    * Because first option didn't work, I was looking into temporarily disable the menu icons by creating a 'show content' page inheriting from 'edit content' page but was only able to set visibility of menu icons to false, also hiding the preview button.

    It seems as not showing the content for locked items is currently the safest option, or am I wrong?

    Cheers,
    Dirk

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