[Zope-CMF] Versioned content?

[Alan Runyan]

CMFStaging is exactly what you are looking for.  

~runyaga

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Winkler" <pw_lists@slinkp.com>
To: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: [Zope-CMF] Versioned content?


> I've been searching for a Product, possibly a new CMF tool, 
> that'll let us keep track of revisions to documents in CMF. 
> I found some old mailing list posts that describe the requirements 
> pretty well, but no actual code. :(
> 
> I'm looking for something sort of like the way cvsweb can
> show you old revisions of things in cvs. 
> 
> It should have workflow too - 
> e.g. when you revise a document, the new revision becomes
> the default view, and the previous revision becomes
> inacessible to the general public and is not found in catalog searches.
> 
> Requirements:
> 
> - new action: "Revise" - we might even remove "Edit" entirely
> and just use this; it will make a copy of the current state of the
> content and save it as an old revision.
> 
> - All content has a link to list of old revisions, sorted by date 
> 
> - Possible to delete old revisions
> 
> - Possible to make an arbitrary old revision "live" (replaces the
> current one)
> 
> - Maybe not required for us, but would be really cool:
> Possible to create a revision with an activation date at which time
> it will automatically supercede the current one as the default
> view for this document.
> 
> 
> These needs seem to overlap somewhat with CMFStaging  / PloneStaging,
> but it's not the same thing AFAICT.
> 
> As for "why don't you just use Undo or Versions?"...
> Undo is fine as far as it goes, except that you have no way to see what 
> state you'll get if you undo... and that's a key requirement.
> 
> Zope Versions seem like they could be useful with a bit
> of interface work to make it CMF-friendly, except that
> the code is notoriously buggy and nobody seems interested in
> maintaining it, in fact most zope developers would seem to prefer
> that Versions never existed.
> 
> I need it to work for CMF content types - Document and Image
> at a minimum.
> 
> I know it's out there somewhere and I must be just
> overlooking it...
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Paul Winkler
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