Which version of Joomla are you using
What level are both the users?

On 14 March 2016 at 10:29, AndyWorking notifications@github.com wrote:

Steps to reproduce the issue

Log in as user1 and create an article. Leave it open.
Log in as user2 and try to unpublish that article. You get a green
background Message "1 article unpublished.", though it is not unpublished
as it is locked by user1.
Expected result

Get red-background-notification that article could not be unpublished as
it is locked by another user.
Actual result System information (as much as possible) Additional comments

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#9418.

Brian Teeman
Co-founder Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc.
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Joomla version 3.4.8.
One user was superadmin, the other was administrator.

Which user was which? If I remember correctly a superuser can always open
an article even if it is checked out

On 14 March 2016 at 10:43, AndyWorking notifications@github.com wrote:

Joomla version 3.4.8.

One user was superadmin, the other was administrator.

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#9418 (comment).

Brian Teeman
Co-founder Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc.
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Sorry, the user who tries to unpublish(so user2) is the superadmin. So either the article should be unpublished even if its locked or the message should change.

Some more info about this

This is what user 2 (super user) gets when making any action (publish, unpublich, trash or archive)

And if the user 2 (super user) tries to edit the content

the only way is a two step aproach. Checkin the item and then do any action.

The same happens in categories, contacts, and i think probably in all items that have checkin.

My Opinion: Expected behaviour.

Closed as expected behaviour