Closing an Edition
When you are done writing to or reading data from an edition, call the
Each time a user edits a publisher within a document, you must update the
modification date in the section record (even if the data is not yet written).
When the update mode is set to Manually, the user can compare the
modification dates for a publisher and its edition in the publisher options dialog
box. One modification date indicates when the publisher last wrote data to the
edition, and the other modification date indicates when the publisher section
was last edited.
function makes the newly written data available to subscribers and sets the
modification date in the mdDate field of the edition to correspond to the
modification date of the publisher's section record. If the two dates differ, the
function sets the modification date of the subscriber's section record to
correspond to the modification date of the edition.
If you cannot successfully read from or write data to an edition, set the
successful parameter to FALSE. For a publisher, data is not written to the edition, but it should still be saved with the document that contains the section.
When the document is next saved, data can then be written to the edition.