[Typo3-dev] Initiating a page version feature

[Peter Niederlag]

Hi Michael,

Michael Stucki <mundaun at gmx.ch> schrieb :

> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking out for a feature where a page can be identified
> explicitely using a version ID. This ID has increase every time when a
> content element on the page changes. This is useful for manual
> workflows where the page is being printed out.

Can't the last_change field help you on that?

> Is this already possible? How?
> 
> If not, then I will try to write an extension for that, but I will
> probably need some help:
> 
> What is the best strategy for that?
> 
> I could change the pages VID (version ID) right after the change of a
> content element.
> 
> I could also add a VID to every element and compare a checksum of all
> elements on one page whenever the page gets reloaded. This may be more
> complicated, but I think this is easier to detect changes in elements
> of the type "inserted record", right?
> 
> Thanks for any hints and opinions.

There is some remarks in 3.6.0-dev sources by kasper&Julle for
versioning which seem to be good idea. We will need that for "real"
workflow as well.
Look in 3.6.0/TODO.txt:
*****************
APPENDIX: Versioning thoughts:
Authors: Julle and Kasper.
*****************

Does that help?

Cheers,
PeterN
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