Baton using

[Vinc80]

hi,

I have a white board with shapes. I want to use baton to block the edition of shape while another user is editing. Presently i created 1 baton for each shape, but on baton change event i can"t compare ShapeID since i only access only userID (comparing holderID and myUserID from connect session) . So when a user is editing, another user couldn't do it.

How can i compare by shapeID instead of holderD ? I want 1 baton per shape.

Thanks

vinc

[coulix]

Hello there,

I am just going to add my thoughts to this thread.

A baton is linked to a Collection Node, could we have on baton per Item id ?

Or attach a batton to particular item to work out who has the right to edit this particular item.

That would be quite useful to handle our Equation shape for example or implement a lock unlock shape system.

Talking about lock unlock if the user holding a baton disconnect i guess the baton become grabable again.

Thanks,

Greg

[Former Community Member]

Hi Greg,

It's an interesting thought - what someone could try is building a multiple-baton component, which has multiple items (one item per baton). It could use a SharedObject as the underlying data model.

nigel

[coulix]

Hi nigel,

I could give it a go but i have one question, i thought there were some server side code to 'help' baton management.

If a baton has timeout of 0 and the user who holds it disconnect what happen ?

Thanks

[Former Community Member]

Hi Greg,

There is a tiny bit of server "help" - we set UserDependentItems to true, which means that the case you mention (a user disconnecting while holding) is taken care of - the item gets retracted when they leave. This is actually similar to how the UserCollection works. UserDependentItems is one of my favorite features!

nigel