it just happen today that I discovered that the lock date of one of our business was not set. Probably someone authorized to manage it in the company unlocked it to do same changes but then he forgot to set it again. I had five minutes of fear…
I propose some ideas of improvements:
An alert always visible (near History and Backup?) showing “Lock Date Unset” or “Lock Date 31/12/2020”
A more ambitious one. A progressive lock date. Imagine that we have a company policy so that we lock the writings each month. However the real lock date by law is 31/12/2020. If I have to unlock the last month I have to unlock all the periods. Maybe we can have a list of progressive lock date. So that, even if I delete the last on all the others will remain active.
A temporary unlock. One can unlock the software for x minutes
A sort of superadmin popup. If I want to force the change I will have to click on update and it will ask me for an admin password.
Dear @lubos,
Concerning the lock date, each suggestion by @Davide is brilliant.
I have faced same issue. Many a times I unlocked a date on request by a staff and later forgot to lock again giving ample opportunity to other staff with limited access to do the changes.
So, to protect the unintended unlocked dates, I will strongly support idea #03
Alternatively idea #01 could be considered probably as an easy implementation idea
Hope, we can get a solution from @lubos soon enough.