Page loading problem with javascript

[emjc]

I have a content management system which relies on javascript for the provision of a WYSIWYG editor. Essentially to edit a document, a working copy is created of an original.

From the main document menu, if a document is a working copy, an icon appears next to it indicating so. You can click on the icon to open the editor (which is embedded on a HTML page). Sometimes the page will open correctly and sometimes a lot of the javascript will not load (along with a line of HTML specifying the CSS file. When a page can be opened correctly, no other page can be.

Does anyone have any indication on why this is happening? Is it possible that (as a result of bad coding perhaps) only one instance of the application can be opened?

Thanks, MARTIN

[StupidScript]

Welcome, emjc!

It definitely is possible that only one working copy can be opened at a time, depending on how you are handling (a) the temporary (editing) file naming and directory placement and (b) how you are handling file (original) locking.

For example:

(a) When a file is opened for editing, you name the temp file

[date]_[filename].tmp

. In this scenario, there's only one temp filename that would result, and someone trying to create a new temp file by trying to edit the original while someone else was doing so would result in a failure to make the second temp file.

(b) If the original is locked, or you do not allow someone to open a second temp file for editing while someone else is already editing it, that, naturally, would keep the second editing session from starting.

Do these sound like they might be contributing to your problem?