Hi folks, back to the well again... hey I work alone so I need someone to talk to...

 

I am trying to get document locking to work in a situation where I have my documents in read mode (NoteXspDocument) and I can change the mode to edit with a partial refresh... that works fine. Now trying to get the document locking working (which is already turned on for the DB, it is an older design I am updating). There isn't a method on the NotesXspDocument for locking and if I use the backing document retrieved with getDocument(), I wind up with replication/save conflicts. Probably because the in-memory document sees the on disk document as being modified by the lock() call.

 

So, I'm a bright fella, I found out a long time ago that locking the document consists of adding $Writers and $WritersDate to the document (clearing a lock by removing them works just fine). I figure I can set the values myself through the NotesXspDocument... close but no guitar.  document.lockHolders doesn't return the value of $Writers, and I can still get a lock against a 'locked' document (the delete code has to get a lock).

 

Anyone know how to either get my lock to be a real lock that will be recognized, or even preferably a way to lock the document through the in-memory NotesXspDocument which won't cause conflicts? Remember this is via partial refresh so I can't mess with the backing document in any way that the in memory document won't know about and I can't do a redirect. 

 

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Rich