Simple Content Versioning
Version
1.959 (last update on Nov 15, 2011)
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License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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Date Added
17 October 2008
This component and two plugins provide a simple content versioning solution for Joomla. It saves a backup copy each time content is saved. It also adds an editor button to allow you to restore a document you're editing with a backup version.
+Features
-A new enterprise workflow add-on to this package is now available! (Workflow is 1.5 only) See our site for more info!
-A new autosave add-on to this package is now available! See our site for more info!
-Shows a list of prior versions for every article, their size, creator and date
-Allows for preview of prior versions before use
-Send an optional email notification when content changes
-Shows a difference view, displaying changes from current to selected version.
-Shows the number of versions directly on the button
-Displayed as a an editor icon, no separate component to deal with
-Translated into French, Spanish, Catalan, German and English
-Configurable limit of versions to store
-Ability to delete prior versions
-Ajax enabled, very simple to use.
-Optionally disabled for front-end users
Recent updates:
*Improved "Diff" view performance for very large articles
*Universal installer!
*Added document size to the selection screen
*Updated to include support for JCK Editor
*Updated to include support for FCKEditor
*Updated to use correct directory seperator.
*If you have had problems installing, we found that a spanish character in the xml file was causing problems with some versions of Joomla. Please try the latest version.
*Fixed multiple front-end bugs,
*Added new installer script
*Updated difference view
*Moved SCV to use the actual revision number from SVN
*Added a "Difference" view to the preview showing difference between current article and selected version
*Fixed autoincrement bug in table create statement
*Added limit to number of versions to store (under content plugin parameters)
*Added version deletion with Ajax goodness
*Thanks to Lucas Guardino from Web Empresa for the Spanish and the Catalan Translation
*Added the author name next to the version
*Added language files for multilingual support
*Added full content preview for large articles
*Added a version check for 1.5.4 or higher
*Added a training video
*Fixed a bug to include fulltext
We know that drupal has versions management feature for articles, but Joomla does not. Now with this extension, Joomla will have the same power to give content items a version manager.
Thanks to the author!
Thanks to the author!
This set of extensions provides easy to use content versioning for Joomla!. The only problem I ran into was that the current release only works when you're logged into the backend. If you're trying to edit an article from the frontend, the window pops up prompting you to log into the backend. However, I was able to quickly recode this to work for the frontend as well.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the note, we'll be sure to fix that issue.
I downloaded this extension and attempted to install it but ran into a few bugs. So I emailed the developer and he fixed them right away. Now its running on my site, and I plan on using it on all my sites. Versioning is a much needed addition (and free!) to the JED. Small simple, perfect. Thanks.
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