Maptitude Help / Creating and Editing Geographic Files / Setting Up Multi-User Editing

Setting Up Multi-User Geographic Editing

Geographic editing by multiple users of standard format (.dbd) geographic files requires special handling. However, tabular data files may be shared and edited with multiple users simply by opening them for writing in shared mode. For more information, see Sharing Tabular Data Files.

Multi-user editing for standard format geographic files is controlled through a standalone database management program, also known as the Lock Manager. This program is run on one, and only one, computer and communicates with other computers using TCP/IP. It can be run either on a separate computer or on one of the computers that will be used for multi-user editing. The computer running the Lock Manager must be as fast as, or faster than, any of the computers being used for editing. To communicate with the Lock Manager, several environment variables must be set on each computer that will be used to do multi-user editing. In addition, Maptitude must be launched with the command line parameter –mt.

Please note that every user who will be doing multi-user editing must have write access to the standard format geographic file. So, for example, testing using tutorial files in the program Tutorial folder would fail because only the user logged in to that machine has write access to the user Documents folder in which the Tutorial folder is found.

Blue triangle iconTo Set Up Multi-User Geographic Editing

  1. Choose Tools>Editing>Advanced-Multi-User Setup to display the Set Up Multi-User Geographic Editing dialog box.
  2. Click Three vertical dots menu icon and choose the folder where shared multi-user configuration files will be stored.
  3. Choose the computer where the Lock Manager will run as follows:
To do this... Do this...
Run locally Click the Run locally radio button. Maptitude shows the IP address of the local computer.
Run on a remote computer Click the Run on remote computer radio button and type the IP address (e.g., 10.1.1.10) or, if using domain name services, the hostname of the remote computer.
  1. Type your 8-character user ID in the User ID (Alphanumeric) text edit box.
  2. If you chose to run locally, you can start the Lock Manager by checking Launch the database sharing Lock Manager.
  3. If you want a desktop icon for the multi-user version of Maptitude, check the Create a Maptitude Multi-user Desktop Icon box.
  4. Click OK.

Maptitude saves your settings and, if you chose to do so, launches the Lock Manager.

 

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