version control in v4.0.3

[eel]

we are in the process of evaluating different cms solutions for our
web site and FarCry v4.0.3 is one of possible choices. It was my
understanding that version control and archiving are fully supported
in this version, but I got different message from potential developer:
"By default, FarCry only captures page title, created date and
username. Additional modification to the CMS to incorporate full
versioning and rollback is required." Is this statement correct?
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[Jeff Coughlin]

> we are in the process of evaluating different cms solutions for our
> web site and FarCry v4.0.3 is one of possible choices. It was my
> understanding that version control and archiving are fully supported
> in this version, but I got different message from potential developer:
> "By default, FarCry only captures page title, created date and
> username. Additional modification to the CMS to incorporate full
> versioning and rollback is required." Is this statement correct?


eel,

To my knowledge, all data for a content type (such as HTML) is  
archived (when archiving is activated for a content type) and  
rollbacks are a simple click.

Also, if you are considering FarCry at this time, I'd suggest using  
one of the latest stable versions (I'm currently using 4.0.8 in most  
of my client production sites).

Regards,

--
Jeff Coughlin
Web Application Developer
http://jeffcoughlin.com


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[Matthew Williams-4]

That statement is accurate for the audit log, which shows only such
stats.  It is not accurate in regards to the archive, however.  There
is an archive feature, which was available in the 3.0 version and
exists up to 4.0.8, that does save a copy a "live" object when a
"draft" object is sent to overwrite the "live" object.  The caveats
being that:

*  The object must support it.  The default HTML object does have this
turned on, and at a glance, so do the other default FarcryCMS
objects.  Geoff, Blair, or a daemonite might need to address what is/
is not versioned.  It looks like everything is versioned by default to
me.
*  FarCry separates content from the display.  So, you make a
"webskin" to frame your content, but the content itself goes into the
DB.  You'll likely have many webskins over the life of the website.
Each version of the content piece is tied to a webskin in the DB.  To
illustrate where I'm going with this, imagine you start out with your
site, 1.0.  It uses templates A, B, C, D in the beginning to layout
your text/images/navigation.  After some time span,  template E is
created as a replacement for template A.  You would use the FarCry
admin interface to switch the content to use template A to template E,
and an archive is created with the old version pointing to template
A.  More time passes.  You decide to clean up unused older templates,
or refactor an older unused templates.  If you delete template A, and
try to view archived content that relied on this template existing in
the file system, you'll receive a "file not found" type error.    So,
FarCry will archive content in the DB, but it will not archive content
found in the file system.  For that, you would also do well to use
something like SVN, CVS, or some other file versioning system.

So, after rambling on a bit, FarCry archives data/content.  It does
not archive file system objects.


Matthew Williams
Geodesic GraFX
www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog
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