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Written by Flavio Adalberto Kubota   

Hello,

After discussion of my last post, I got a conclusion: open for edit always the latest version. And I did. I did this part as a plugin. I had some difficulty, because I am coding an extension and I can not modify the Joomla! core. But Ian helped me to find a solution.

Still about last post subject, I have been thiking about publishing a revision and it became the current. I talked to Ian a lot. I will probably implement in two ways for user tests.

As suggested, I did a nice functionality indicating what revision number a change comes from. I'm displaying this information in a bar, but I'm thinking to show it in a float box, like an acronym.
 

We are almost there. A basic version control component is working, not tested, but usable. I plan to make an installable package and make it available soon!

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8 Comments

  1. avatar Amy Stephen makes this comment

    Sat 19 Jul 2008 01:12:45 EDT

    Excellent news, Flavio! A version management system for Joomla! will be welcome news.

  2. avatar Peter Stumpf makes this comment

    Mon 21 Jul 2008 07:13:58 EDT

    Hi Flavio, great news! I am looking forward to your first installable release. I'd like to test it as soon as possible.

  3. avatar Luis Antonio Galárraga Del Prado makes this comment

    Mon 21 Jul 2008 16:13:24 EDT

    Yes, they are excellent news. I am looking forward to testing it.

  4. avatar James Martin makes this comment

    Wed 23 Jul 2008 03:30:50 EDT

    Yay! Looking forward to loading it up on our test server and giving it a spin. Sounds like excellent progress! James and Susan

  5. avatar Tony makes this comment

    Fri 25 Jul 2008 17:40:47 EDT

    I am so excited that I may wet myself. I have been needing this solution. With so many non-profit agencies and organizations that rely on federal funding requiring a full audit trail, this is a life saver! Is it also possible to get a single log file for all the edits made (user and article edited) for a specific amount of time (1 year)? I assume your project includes a notification email to the admin or super admin when changes are made. Flavio, I have never wanted to kiss another man so much in my life as when I saw that you were working on this!

  6. avatar Flavio Adalberto Kubota makes this comment

    Sat 26 Jul 2008 22:03:01 EDT

    Hi Tony, nice to know! Honestly, I didn't know this could be usefull for audit trail. When you said about log, do you mean a log for each article or one log for all articles? Because, a list of all versions of an article is already done, and it is possible to filter by date and by user. A list of all versions of all article it is not done, but I think is simple to code it. Version Control component does not have an email notification, but it is a very good idea, probably I will to do it! Thank you for feedback! The package will be available very soon.

  7. avatar Peter Stumpf makes this comment

    Mon 28 Jul 2008 09:15:10 EDT

    Notification e-mail? I re-wrote a plugin of Daniel Young - his DYNotificationManager plugin. It now is able to show the differences in detail of the last save-process. I made this including the PEAR-Diff-Package. The report may be sent to a specific group of recipients, dependent on who, i.e. which group did edit the content. This plugin does not only work for normal content, but also for JoomFish-translations, menus, weblinks, banners, etc. It is easily expandable. Flavio, I think we should get in contact regarding this feature, so we could implement it right into your version control system.

  8. avatar Flavio Adalberto Kubota makes this comment

    Tue 29 Jul 2008 14:34:16 EDT

    Peter, for sure we should get in contact. You can get my e-mail address at JoomlaCode: http://joomlacode.org/gf/user/flaviokubota/

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