[FR] AutoCheckout on SAVE

[linqen]

Hi, first of all, thank you so, so much for your work here. I have been using your plugin for a while and, without it, we won't be able to have the great workflow we have right now!

I wanted to request a feature, or maybe to ask some directions so I can implement it and make a PR.

Right now there is an option (this is offered by the engine AFAIK) to auto-checkout when a file is modified. This is too much for a team I think because if some of the users are not very technical, project can get crazy too fast with everything locked.

My idea is to have an auto-checkout but when you click save instead of modification. This would remove the extra step of clicking CHECKOUT on files that can be checked out. If the file is already checked out by someone else, the window should appear and offer you the chance to make it writeable, or cancel the saving process.

Thank you!

[mastercoms]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. This is a great idea but I feel like this would be better offered in the engine rather than in this plugin.

[linqen]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. This is a great idea but I feel like this would be better offered in the engine rather than in this plugin.

Do you think that is possible technically to handle this from plugin side? If so, I could take a look and try a PR.

In our project, would be a huge overkill to switch to a built engine just for this, so if possible from plugin side, I would go that route.

[mastercoms]

I do think it's possible, but I probably wouldn't include it in the main branch. You can do this in a fork if you'd like.

[linqen]

Great, I will, thank you! Any advice where I could take a look for this?

[mastercoms]

I'm not really so sure, sorry