I want to have two people enter links in the Admin area at the same time. Is it possible? Will they mess up the database? What will happen if they both click on Build after they finish entering links? Thanks.

I know that more than one person can be in the admin, but I think it does cause problems when the both click build all. If you want more than one person logging in, make them do seperate parts, eg one validating links, another modifiing categorys. etc

You can enter links, but two people can also edit (and cancel each other's changes) on modifying links. If people are just adding links in the Admin (not validating) then that's ok.

I would suggest only one person doing builds though. I have not checked the logic, but I think it could cause some problems if two builds go on at the same time. You might end up having to do another build to fix it all.

Links is _really_ not a multi-user program in the true sense. There are no provisions for record locking, or "checking out" of records, so that if one person is editing it, another person can't go in and edit it under them. I would suggst limiting Admin access to only one person, or one person at a time, and letting other people use the Editor and regular features.



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Thank you for your reply. Pugdog indicated that two people can enter links at the same time. If this is the case, what happens to the order of the records if they both work in the same category. One starts from the beginning and the other starts from the end of the list towards the top. By the end of the day, one person will click on Build. Then will it be in the correct alphabetical order?

Thing is the Validate tables are not shown in anything but reverse order, and only 10 at a time, so you need to continually "validate" records you have edited.

I'm not sure what the solution would be.

Something more "stable" in deciding what links to do might be to use the "Add_Date" and have one editor edit only EVEN days, and the other edit only ODD days. Each can click the "Validate" button after EACH record edited, to clear out records they have edited, but if the other editor is lagging, then you will hit the problem of one editor not being able to get to more links.

Only one person should have the "power" to re-build. That will avoid any problems.



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I experimented with people entering links in seperate categories. It seems fine. Only one person is allowed to click on Build All by the end of the day after the other person stopped working. So far it is ok. I don't want to experiement any further because I fear it may mess up the whole thing. Thanks for all your responses.