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Display other users currently active on App and restrict Sharepoint items based on that

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Posted on by DaPiranha

I have an app which is based around a Sharepoint list. It's primarily a form with a "Create" screen which creates a new row in the Sharepoint list and then "Update" and "Submit" screens which update items within the list.

1 - Is there a way to display to a user if there are other users currently in the app and or what row they are currently working on?

2 - If a user is currently updating an existing form (row in Sharepoint) is there a way to lock that record while they complete their parts so that I don't risk having two users updating the same row and one wiping out the others additions?

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tchin-nin 779 on at

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Hi,

What you can do is set a flag on your list that will be set to true as soon as a user will edit the item. And set to false as soon as the item as been updated and is not in edition mode anymore. Then you use this flag to prevent other users to edit the item if the flag is set to true.

The only problem is, what if user start editing the item (so set the flag to true, preventing other user to get to the edition of this item) and suddenly quit the app without properly quitting the edit screen. The flag won't be set to false again and this item won't be editable anymore.

I'm not giving any solution here, just expose some possibilities.

Theo

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DaPiranha 3 on at

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An interesting suggestion, so theres a way to flag the list item in sharepoint is there?

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