[ale] google spreadsheet is pretty cool

[Jerry Yu]

I guess it'd be nicer to be able to see,  the 'members' active on it
(staring at it, or made an unsaved/unsynced change) with green/yellow
smileys and such. An audit trail can finish it off nicely too.
I always feel a little queasy about computer programs do things
automatically, esp. those non-AI programs doing AI stuff. A 'cvs merge' is
one of them. hmm, maybe I am just not familiar with how 'cvs merge' works.


On 9/26/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think others were "logged in", but that I was the only one actively
> editing.
>
> It seems that each time you move from cell to cell the data is sync'ed
> back to the main google server.
>
> If for some reason the sync fails for a few seconds, it aborts and the
> edit is lost.  (Or IIRC you can change to a degraded read-only mode,
> but I have not tried that and I'm not sure how you revert to full
> read/write.
>
> Alternatively, you can disable sync and require manual saves, but that
> sounds bad on a shared spreadsheet.  Maybe if you had someother scheme
> in place to ensure no edit collisions taking place.  ie. Person A can
> make edits in the morning and Person B can maked edits in the evening.
>
> Greg
>
> On 9/26/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Were you sharing with others at the same time? If it happened for a
> one-man
> > editing, the reliability of the sync would be questionable for
> multi-person
> > sharing.
> >
> >
> > On 9/25/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 9/25/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > > > It's been working pretty nicely.  I've lost a cell entry here or
> > > > > there, but nothing major.
> > > > You don't consider losing a cell entry "major?"
> > >
> > > It has told me when it happened.
> > >
> > > So I do a little typing, an error message comes up about losing sync
> > > or whatever and tells me to do a reconnect/refresh.  After the
> > > refresh, my last entry may be gone and I simply redo it.  If it was a
> > > silent data loss, I'd be a lot more concerned.
> > >
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