[chandler-users] partial sync of events problem

[Mimi Yin]

Not to dredge up old conversations that have already been had...I  
can't remember, was there ever a specific reason to *not* commit  
items if keyboard focus is in one of the detail view fields for that  
item?

In other words, the New Event item would never be committed so long  
as Esther's cursor was still in the Title field.

Mimi

On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Hi Mitch and Esther,
>
> Mitch Kapor wrote:
>> With the "mitch8" calendar, some new events were created, one by  
>> me, a couple by Esther, each on our respective desktop machines.   
>> When synced, what shows up on the server and on other desktop  
>> machines is not the entire event but a new event at the right time  
>> and of the right length but without the right title.
>>
>> Esther is using an 8.22 checkpoint and I am using RC4.
>
> We changed the way edits are committed to the repository to make  
> them more frequent with bug 9507 and you both should have that fix  
> in your respective versions. Still, you need to note that your  
> edits to a text field (the title for instance) are not committed as  
> long as you leave your cursor in that field. I can imagine that  
> could be long. Of course, if your edits are not committed, when  
> sync happens, the edits are not there either and the event will  
> show up with the default "New Event" title. Since background sync  
> happens only every hour (by default), the weird title can show up  
> for a long time.
>
> We struggled with other solutions (e.g. commit on a schedule) but  
> there were concerns with perf and even UI behavior so we voted  
> against it.
>
> One thing you can do to avoid this situation is always clicking (or  
> tabbing in the case of the title) outside the edited field to make  
> sure it gets committed next time around. You can also force the  
> commit with "File>>Save Change (command-S)".
>
> Also, in cases like you and Esther, I'm thinking that increasing  
> the rate of syncing (from every hour to say every 15 minutes) would  
> prevent lots of conflicts and delayed updates. You can change the  
> sync schedule through the "File>>Sync>>Set Auto-sync..." dialog.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
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