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Suppose a link is copied from category A to category B, both with different editors. Does that mean that neither editor A nor editor B can modify it?

Bumping this one up so as to alert GT to what looks to us like a significant interface oversight (and hopefully get a workaround).

rayhne is correct. If a link appears in more than one category, it can only be modified by editors who have permissions in ALL those categories!

Here is our story ... Having completed the first stage of our project (compiling an initial set of links, and putting them into appropriate categories with provisional descriptions), we persuaded our reluctant (they unanimously dislike the browser.cgi interface) editors to give browser.cgi another chance.

Result: no editors. All our links are in multiple categories, so effectively the editors can do nothing. We don't have a single link that can be modified by editors through browser.cgi!. None of the links are editable, and none of the editors can do anything. Our only way out would be to give all editors full permissions in all categories, which they don't want and neither do we.

I'm sure that this is OK for many LSQL clients, eg: directories in which multiple categorization is rare, or where it is understood that links may not have equal significance in all the categories where they are placed. But the uses of LSQL are diverse ... GT makes a virtue of LSQL's flexibility in its marketing, and really should not have allowed errors of this magnitude to remain unnoticed. This is a failure of the Testing Dept.

GT: We would be happy with an assurance that browser.cgi will get some serious attention in the eagerly awaited next release. Meanwhile -- is there anything we can do now?
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Thread Editors, thier categories and copied links rayhne 5764 Jul 12, 2002, 1:25 PM
Thread Re: [rayhne] Editors, thier categories and copies links
Teambldr 5666 Jul 12, 2002, 1:32 PM
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rayhne 5650 Jul 12, 2002, 1:34 PM
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Teambldr 5695 Jul 12, 2002, 1:36 PM
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rayhne 5670 Jul 12, 2002, 1:37 PM
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Ian 5645 Jul 12, 2002, 3:43 PM
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rayhne 5650 Jul 13, 2002, 7:09 AM
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YoYoYoYo 5629 Jul 14, 2002, 3:16 AM
Thread Browser.cgi Nightmare
YoYoYoYo 5603 Aug 19, 2002, 9:42 AM
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rayhne 5554 Aug 19, 2002, 10:39 AM
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rayhne 5502 May 9, 2003, 9:15 AM
Thread Re: [rayhne] Editors, thier categories and copied links
katabd 5644 Jul 14, 2002, 9:12 AM
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Ian 5653 Jul 14, 2002, 9:21 AM
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Teambldr 5678 Jul 14, 2002, 11:30 AM
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Ian 5613 Jul 14, 2002, 12:19 PM
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rayhne 5585 Jul 15, 2002, 7:08 PM