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Status Future consideration
Categories Editing/Display
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 16, 2023

Allow archiving of projects and modules while users have edit locks on data

Currently both tasks - archiving and editing, require exclusive access to all modules in a project (project archives), all data in a module (module archiving) (exclusive edit) or some data in a module (shared edit). This excludes the ability to create archives while users are editing data in modules, which constitutes a serious limitation for a use where a DOORS database has little or no downtime available to it, for such archiving (and restoring) tasks (for example where high availability and 24x7 access to edit module data) is required. The consequence are serious challenges in finding and performing archiving and restore tasks on large data sets in such busy databases.

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)