[ckan-dev] undo changes in CKAN

[Aaron McGlinchy]

This is a timely post.  I was looking into the versioning and despite having the initial belief that CKAN did allow real versioning (i.e. able to get back to older version of file), I had begun to conclude that in fact it was only a log of changes - so a version history, rather than actual versioning.

Learning about http://<ckan-site>/dataset/history/<dataset-name>  is excellent news.

Whilst history/revision pages may not as David says be very pretty, they are incredible valuable.  So I would not want to see them completely forgotten (ie. at least maintain the existing level of functionality into future CKAN versions).

Personally I have no problem there not being a visible link within CKAN to take me to the datasets history page - now I know about it I can go there if I need to - but it would be good to have it documented (along with a few of the other hidden admin features)

Aaron
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:51:48 +0100
From: David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com<mailto:david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>>
Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] undo changes in CKAN
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The history page and revision pages are not very pretty, although very handy for administrators for diffs and includes the revision undo button (BTW the revision undo is pretty flakey). I don't think there are CKAN 2.x templates for it.

I think OKF decided to put their energies instead into the Activity Stream instead which is much clearer for end users and has other features.

It's difficult to justify working on both or displaying both on the same site. At DGU we still prefer the history page, and will look at improving the diff functionality.

David


On 23 September 2013 17:31, Ryan Maine <balrogmi at msn.com<mailto:balrogmi at msn.com>> wrote:
> Researching about this question I read
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2013-July/002779.html
>
> It seems that history page is hidden but you can show it typing
> http://<ckan-site>/dataset/history/<dataset-name>
>
> I tried it on my site and works perfectly apparently. Why is it
> hidden? Is it unenstable or uncompleted in CKAN 2.0?
>
> Thanks
>
> 2013/9/19 Ryan Maine <balrogmi at msn.com<mailto:balrogmi at msn.com>>:
>> According to the feature tour, in the History section:
>>
>> "Using this feature, you can look at old versions, undo changes, look
>> at a complete history of changes to a dataset, and compare different
>> revisions."
>>
>> How can I do this?? I'm in the activity stream tab of a dataset and
>> I'm unable to get it, How can I undo changes and compare revisions?
>>
>> My CKAN version is 2.0.2
>>
>> Regards
>
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