Document locking hits MidCOM 2.8
Latest MidCOM 2.8 has a feature that has been resurrected from earlier in the series: document locking. The point of locking is to prevent accidental simultaneous editing of a document by multiple users.
When user starts editing a document via datamanager-powered form, the document will be marked as locked for that user. Other users accessing the document will see a notice:
Unlocking permissions can be granted via the Asgard user manager.
Unlike the older and somewhat troublesome method, the new locking system uses regular Midgard metadata properties and has a clean API available.
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New user management tool for Midgard
In past there have been two types of user management tools for Midgard: the built-in ones that have supplied lists of users, and then custom-made ones. With former the problem has been that when you have thousands of users the HTML views become slow to load and near impossible to use.
Optimizing the latest MidCOM
I drove from Turku to Helsinki early in the morning with a Land Rover that didn’t have headlights. Since then have been hunting performance issues in latest beta of MidCOM - the component architecture used by Midgard CMS.