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→Administrative Questions: Add an answer about check_can_change field, and cleanup the mid-air question
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=Administrative Questions= | =Administrative Questions= | ||
==Does Bugzilla provide record locking when there is simultaneous access to the same bug? Does the second person get a notice that the bug is in use or how are they notified?== | ==Does Bugzilla provide record locking when there is simultaneous access to the same bug? Does the second person get a notice that the bug is in use or how are they notified?== | ||
Bugzilla does not lock records. | Bugzilla does not lock records. It provides "mid-air collision" detection, which means that it warns a user when a commit is about to conflict with commits recently made by another user, and offers the second user a choice of options to deal with the conflict. | ||
It provides mid-air collision detection | |||
which means that it warns a user when a commit is about to conflict | |||
with commits recently made by another user, | |||
and offers the second user a choice of options to deal with the conflict. | |||
==Can users be on the system while a backup is in progress?== | ==Can users be on the system while a backup is in progress?== | ||
Yes. You should use the commands included with your database software to run the backups of your Bugzilla data. You can find strategies for dealing with backup considerations at http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html for MySQL and at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html for PostgreSQL. | Yes. You should use the commands included with your database software to run the backups of your Bugzilla data. You can find strategies for dealing with backup considerations at http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html for MySQL and at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html for PostgreSQL. | ||
==Can I restrict a user's ability to edit certain bug fields?== | |||
Yes, but it requires code changes. You have to edit the <code>check_can_change_field</code> subroutine in the file <tt>Bugzilla/Bug.pm</tt>. The file has many comments to help guide your edits. | |||
==How do I make it so that bugs can have an UNCONFIRMED status?== | ==How do I make it so that bugs can have an UNCONFIRMED status?== | ||