What is "Check in"?

[Max Shinn]

I was reviewing some pages (newsfeeds) and this area was left blank. Could somebody please shed some light on this for me?
Thanks,
--
Max Shinn
Programmer, Composer
m...@BernsteinForPresident.com
www.BernsteinForPresident.com | trombonechamp.wordpress.com

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein

[James Cutrone]

Hi Max,

If you mean the "Check In" button in the menu bar of the Newsfeed
component (Components -> Newsfeeds -> Feeds), that is for "unlocking"
an item so that another user account can edit it. Whenever a user
clicks on a Newsfeed item and opens it for editing, the item becomes
locked to any other user account. This means at that point the only
user account that can edit the item is the account that first opened
the item for editing. The item becomes "unlocked" when the user that
opened the item for editing saves it or clicks the "close" menu item.
You can test this by clicking on one of the Newsfeed items and then
press the "Back" button in your web browser. This will cause the list
of newsfeed items to reappear and you will now see a little lock icon
next to the newsfeed item that is now locked to your user account
since you opened it without saving or properly closing it. It appears
that the "Check In" button allows you to forcefully "unlock" an item
so that you can edit it in case a different user locked it and forgot
to unlock it.

I would assume that only users of a certain access level would be able
to use this "Check In" button to forcefully unlock an item since that
would ensure only people of sufficient privileges can bypass this
system which is meant to prevent two people from editing the same item
at once. However I haven't fully tested this so I could be wrong on
this and any back-end user account can use the Check In button.

- James

On Jun 24, 4:06 pm, Max Shinn <m...@bernsteinforpresident.com> wrote:
> I was reviewing some pages (newsfeeds) and this area was left blank.  Could somebody please shed some light on this for me?  
> Thanks,
> --
> Max Shinn
> Programmer, Composer

> m...@BernsteinForPresident.comwww.BernsteinForPresident.com| trombonechamp.wordpress.com

[Denis Mouraux]

Hello Max,

From what I know about "Global Check-in" in 1.5, and after playing
with this a little bit in 1.6 (in the Article Manager, but it's
probably the same in various places), here's what I understand:

* When someone is currently editing an item, you'll notice a little
padlock icon beside the name of the item in the Manager's items list.
The tooltip will tell you who started to edit the article, and when.
* If you try to edit that item, an error message will be displayed and
you won't be able to save the item (only save a copy), unless you are
the same user that had "checked-out" the item.
* Sometimes a user will start to edit an item but instead of saving or
closing the item editor, the user will just navigate away from it or
close the browser. As far as Joomla knows, the user is still editing
the item, so nobody else can edit it. That's when "Check-in" comes in
handy: It just cancels the "check-out" so the item can now be edited
by someone else.
* Before Checking an item in, you must be sure that the user is not
still really editing the item. You can look at the date/time of the
checkout, and ideally contact the user to know if it's Ok to check-in
the item. I guess if you check-in and the user is still editing, that
user won't be able to save (haven't tried it).

Site > Site Maintenance > Global Check-In does this automatically for
all checked-out items (banners, categories, contacts, articles, etc).
In 1.5 we only had Global Check-in. Per-item check-in was added in
1.6.



Denis :-)

[Denis Mouraux]

Hey Max,

As you might have seen in http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-docs/browse_thread/thread/9b1e3b20749d11a6,
I just created some new chunks, including one for the Check In button.
You can use:

{{Chunk16:toolbaricon|Checkin}}

(as I mentionned in the other thread, the actual text still needs some
work but if we all start using these chunks, we can then edit the text
in just one place)



Denis :-)