[Typo3-dev] RFC: Undo/History-Feature - Design / UI / Usability

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Hi Sebastian,

I have no opinion whether your changes are for the better or worse feature 
wise (better I guess :-)

About improving usability there might be improvements done with the new skin 
of 4.0.

I'm fine with removing the snapshot feature.

One feature I would like to see implemented is that removed files are also 
possible to revert - as you probably know I didn't manage to include that in 
the current implementation, but you are free to do so if you find it 
necessary or challenging! 

Thanks for working on it!


- kasper


On Sunday 11 December 2005 20:08, Sebastian Kurfuerst wrote:
> Hi,
> I currently re-code the current Undo/History feature to a more usable
> form. The current version of my code can be found here:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=1650
> The patches are created against CVS. To check it against 3.8.* just
> remove out the contents of the function "resolveElement" (NOT the
> function itself), but _LEAVE_ "return $uid" inside the function.
>
> Here is what is changed:
>       * I reversed the view - new entries are on top now (more common)
>       * you can set how many items should be shown in history
>       * you can see changes on content elements as well when looking at
>         the history of a page
>       * inserts and deletes appear in the history now
>
> Every revert has 3 steps now:
>      1. see the complete history
>      2. see the differences between the current revision of the
>         record(s) and the selected time
>      3. rollback all changes, some records or some fields of some
>         records
>
> What doesn't work yet and brings problems is the "snapshot" feature. I'd
> drop it, as the current implementation is not usable. Imagine a
> situation where a snapshot is preserved, then some new history entries
> are created and they are as well deleted. then the snapshot is in an
> inconsistent state as well - that's as it is right now.
> I would drop the snapshot feature as this is IMO covered by versioning /
> workspaces perfectly. Any comments?
>
>
> Anyways, I'd like to hear some suggestions on
> - usability
> - UI design
> - Icons (maybe somebody can create some fancy ones?)
> (- features)
>
> It'd be great if somebody was interested in it, as I want to integrate
> this feature in 4.0.
>
> I appreciate any kinds of comments.
>
>
> Greets, Sebastian
>
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- kasper

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