SID-00773: Versioning topics

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Hi there,

Has anyone come up with a decent approach to versioning of topics in Twiki? Or at least how to identify a baseline?

Is there an easy way to baseline a wiki page?

What I want is to be able to point people at a version of the page as it was at a point of time, including all the artefacts embeded in the page - e.g. Same page content, same diagram content, any attachements, etc.

Failing that, is there a way to pull out all the versions of diagrams that were on a page at a point in time? I was thinking I could at least provide an index of diagrams as baselined. The search function on wiki doesn't seem to provide this either though.

Thanks,

Stuart

-- StuartBell - 2010-03-04

Discussion and Answer

Testing image and link:

• - this is topic rev 3 (an "X", was a checkmark in rev 2)
• http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Support/SID-00773/test-file.txt - this is topic rev 3 ("BBB"s, was "AAA"s in rev 2)

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-05

See test above. Apparently TWiki does not refer to the proper attachment version of you look at a previous version, such as http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/SID-00773?rev=2 - which should reference attachments http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/viewfile/Support/SID-00773?filename=test-image.gif;rev=1 and http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/viewfile/Support/SID-00773?filename=test-file.txt;rev=1, respectively.

So, there is no way of browsing the past exactly as it was, including proper references to attachments. It would be a useful feature! TWiki is open source. You can get involved and contribute that feature. See ReadmeFirst to get started.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-05

The only way I've found to do this is to periodically generate a PDF of the topic, and then auto-attach it to the topic. We use this for a team meeting page, and so we only need a snapshot taken once a week.

-- SeanCMorgan - 2010-03-09

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-02

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