[ome-devel] Collaborate on omero-web figure

[William Moore]

Hi Kai,

 Thanks for the suggestion (and Sebastien for replying).

As Sebastien says, you'd need to be in a Read-Write group to allow multiple users to edit the same figure.
This might be a problem if you don't want read-write permissions on ALL other data in the group.

Another issue is how to allow different users to edit the same file without potentially 
overwriting each other's changes.
OMERO.figure doesn't support google-docs style of editing (where every change is atomic and the diff is
saved to the server).
Instead, the whole file is saved each time, so if 2 users were editing a figure at the same time,
there's no way to merge both their changes.
You'd need a "lock" on the file to tell you that another user was currently editing and ensure that
only 1 user edits at a time.

I guess something like a simple "lock" shouldn't be too hard to implement, so the main question
is still the issue of Read-Write permissions on figures, IF you don't want Read-Write permissions
on all your other data.

 Cheers,

  Will.



On 13 Jul 2015, at 21:08, "Sebastien Besson (Staff)" <s.besson at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Kai
> 
> as always, thanks for the feedback. I had a quick go at it and it seems this
> functionality is not available at the moment.
> 
> However, it seems to me it should be possible to use the new Read-Write group
> system introduced in 5.1.2 where members of the same group can edit an annotation
> to introduce the full collaborative mode you are describing.
> 
> Will is currently on leave but I opened a GitHub issue [1] to track your suggestion.
> We can discuss it when he comes back and get back to you.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sebastien
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ome/figure/issues/95
> 
>> On 11 Jul 2015, at 10:05, Kai Schleicher <kai.schleicher at unibas.ch> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed that its possible in Omero web figure to open and save a copy of another persons figure from the same group, which is a great feature to share figures!
>> 
>> Now I was wondering whether there is a way for several people to work on the same figure, rather than on separate copies.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Kai
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