Better handling of locking/unlocking

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi,

we have team of 20 people (and possibly more in the future) using EA to model a large project. We have enabled security in the way that requires users to lock the objects in order to edit them.
However, in some cases when we try to lock the objects, no error message is displayed but the object is not locked... when I check in the "Manage locks" window, I can see that it is locked for someone else already. It would be nice if the message "This object has been already locked by someone else" appeared consistently.
Also, would it be possible to display name of the user who has locked the object? I know that it can be found in the "Manage locks" window, but in a project with thousands of objects, this might get a bit inconvenient and time consuming.
Even better, displaying the object status directly in the project browser window, or at least on the mouseover would definitely help!

Thank you.

Bruno

[Tjerk]

Thanks Bruno. I also would like to see those improvements on locking.

Tjerk

[mbc]

The best solution would be if locking and version control were integrated.
Ideally, the whole project would be kept in the version control system, and when someone wants to edit something, he checks it out (and hereby lock it). When he finishes editing, he checks it in (and hereby unlocks it). That is how we work on source code. The model should be no different.

Mikkel