I'm reviewing the features list on the next version of my CMS, and I want to do a better job of handling archiving this time around. The way i'm doing it at the moment is pretty clunky and rolling back to a previous version of a page is far from straightforward and intuitive.
Can anyone point me to a resource that could give me some hints on how i should design that part of the app? Or alternatively, could anyone give me some advice on how i should do it? I have a PageFramework table that contains things like page title, expiry date, UserID, date created, access restrictions, and also a Content table that contains the text/imagenames, etc for content elements inside the page. Each time anyone creates PageFrameworks, Content, or modifies either of those, it first copies the record it's about to modify to PageArchive table or ContentArchive table, giving it a version number that's an increment of the version it already has. Then it goes ahead and processes any updates that are required from the current operation. Is this the best way to do it? That ContentArchive table is getting pretty large, and there is a new version of a page even if the only change is a comma added. So if this current change is done with several steps, or multiple saves during the update process, rolling back to the last published version of hte page means looking through a whole lot of archived pages searching for the one that was on line earlier. As I said, it kind of works, but it's not very easy to use. How do you CMS authors handle this issue? -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312926 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
