[opencms-dev] grey flag "belongs to project" confuses me...

[Nico Krause]

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your quick response.
first of all there is no project name displayed if I mousover the grey flag.

I think I did it that way:
1. I was working in the explorer as user admin
2. I updated a class file - switched to tomcat manager html -> reload
3. A third window diplayed an old / or new reloaded view (?) of a login 
screen which i implemented for a small project.
4. So I logged into my login site, with another user. back in explorer 
the window in opencms explorer showed allready admin at localhost but I 
believe (I'm sure) opencms has also changed the working user.
5. I modified the login file (because someting was still wrong) with a 
wrong user (not the admin) - which as also write access and is 
projectmember and published it with this user.. but I think still the 
old project... (I think)
6. the grey flag appeared. - and there´s currently now way to get rid of 
it ... (if ther´s a way updating sql tables manually please tell me :)
7. there were no files created with ~ at the beginning.
8. I use RC1.
9. If I steal a lock by a different user - it also does not help after 
publishing it again.

So do you think it´s also possible that the mistake is caused by a miss 
implementation of mine? Because of modifiying the Login.class for 
/autenticate.html  and implementing wrong the Login template class for 
my website?

If you need further information - please email me - and many thanks for 
your help.

Best Regards,

Nico

Alexander Kandzior schrieb:

>Nico,
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>>sometimes - when I work with different logins... beetween testings... 
>>and debugging (changing beetween different users and 
>>projects) it occures a grey flag in the explorer with an 
>>alternativ text "belongs 
>>to project"
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>question: is no project name given (does is say "belongs to project"
>only or "belongs to project XYZ" )? If states no project name this might
>be a bug. Please report how to recreate this. It might involve starting
>a "direct publish". It might also involve temporary files starting with
>"~", but this should have been fixed in 5rc1. 
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>What version of OpenCms do you use?
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>About the flags in general:
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>The flags are basically usefull and intended for OpenCms setups with
>many projects and groups and permissions. In smaller projects, where you
>most often have only one "Offline" project, these should not appear. 
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>In general, a file can only be changed in one project. If 2 different
>projects (A and B) can access the same file, the person who did the last
>modification on the file has the red flag, indicating that this file now
>belongs to his project. Let's say this in in project A. In the other
>project B, you now have a grey flag. Note that the file exists only once
>and is therefore marked as "changed" in both projects. However, if
>project B is published, the file is NOT published along since it is
>currently not in B but in A. If A is published the file goes online and
>the flag disappears. 
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>So the flag are really for the publishing: A file is published if it 
>a) is in the "view" of a project, as defined when creating the project
>b) has been changed (or deleted) and 
>c) has the flag set to this project and not to a different project
>
>If you lock / unlock a flagged file (or steal the lock) you can shift
>the file to your proejct, i.e. the flag become red for you and grey for
>all other projects. 
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>But as said in the beginning, this might be a bug. If so, please report
>how it can be recreated. 
>
>Best Regards,
>Alex.
>
>Alexander Kandzior
>Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
>http://www.alkacon.com
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