what is concurrent lock

[#1]

Can anyone educate me on the topic of concurrent lock.

Each Application seems to have a node for concurrent lock settings which can be seen in outlooksoft admin.

My guess. It determines the dimensions relevant for locking for an App.

Regards

[Former Member]

wrong guess

the locking for applications is done via workstatus.

The concurrent locking setting is to prevent the possibilitie that two (or more) users are changing the data for the same intersections.

For example: if the concurrent lock settings are set to entity,time,category (which is the default and in almost all cases the right setting), if you change the data for a certain intersection, the used intersection will be locked when records are processed and written back to the database. normally all of this will be done within a second.

If for example you have an extra costcenter dimension in your application and several different users are entering data for different costcenters but for only 1 entity, it may be usefull to add the costcenter dimension to the concurrent lock settings, in this case you want users to be able to sent data for 1 entity at the same time.

Hope this helps,

Alwin