Write Protection

Write protection is an invoice lock that ensures your changes to an invoice are not overwritten by another user simultaneously. Write protection is automatically activated when the invoice is opened and lasts for 5 minutes before it needs to be renewed. Activate the Write Protection feature in settings --> Organization Settings --> Semine.

Settings

As an administrator, go to "Settings" / "Semine"

Under the "Write Protection" section, you can choose to write-protect so that only one user can edit at a time. It is also possible to choose that this write protection does not apply when the document is in approval.

Invoice

When this setting is activated, and you enter a document being edited by someone else, the document is write-protected, and you receive a message on the screen similar to this one:

On a write-protected document, the fields are also grayed out and locked for editing while the first user is on the document:

Other Users on the Invoice

You can also see the number of users on the document simultaneously:

If you click on the user indicator, you can see who is viewing the page and who is editing:

After a few minutes of inactivity, you will eventually be asked if you want to keep the write protection on the document:

When you, as the first user, exit the invoice, the invoice is no longer locked, but the next user needs to refresh the page to be able to edit.

Invoice lock.