It would be great if we could add additional users to log into our web link planner account, so the entire team can collaborate.
Hi Jesse,
You can grant users read-only access to the saved version of a project today, but multi-user editing isn’t currently available. Read-only users can make a copy of the shared project and make extra changes, but this is an entirely new project as far as LINKPlanner is concerned - similar to copying a project file in the desktop version.
Multi-user editing is on the road-map, but we haven’t been able to come up with a good solution for when 2 users are editing the same features at the same time. If User A deletes a site at the same time that User B edits a link from that site what should happen?
Thanks,
Andy
One solution would be one user one is on the LP file, the file is then locked. Any subsequent user is read only. This is how one of our external tools works, and there is a button to finish editing work and unlock the file or it times out if no activity detected after X minutes.
We really want to avoid locking if we can - certainly at the project level. We are starting to implement automatic feature level locking so that multiple events to the same object are paused until the original lock is released.
Initially this will help with race conditions caused by a single user (editing the link and then deleting the site that the link is on before the original calculations have finished). If this works well then it should also work with multi-user editing. However, we still have a number of changes to make and a lot of testing before that can happen.