Re: "Last modified by"

We implemented a "last modified by" line on our site by using the
autoversioning capabilities of CMFEditions.  It works reasonably well
for our archetypes-based content (without schematas), but it also
requires CMFEditions to be installed (which is a bit unstable for
production sites right now).

It would be great if a history could become a part of the
archetype-based content object itself, at least until a versioning
product like CMFEditions becomes a Plone standard.

Originally, we had thought about using Zope's built in history to
determine the last modifier, and this would even work if the DB is
packed since the most recent revision is all you need, but it doesn't
work if the last "modification" was something like a rename, workflow
state change, etc.  As soon as you limit your history search to only
"edit" actions (which is probably what you want for "last modified",
right?), you lose the ability to pack your database and maintain the
last modifier.  Argh!

Matt Hahnfeld
[email protected]

On 8/7/06, Jonas Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> > I guess what you are looking for is DC listCreators().
>
> Yes it returns a list, but no matter how many different people that has
> edited the document, the list returned is always:
>
> ('name_of_creator',)
>
>
> I mean isn't Plone about people collaborating on publishing documents ?
> My experience is that after a couple of days using Plone the first thing
>    people ask about is "Which person has modified this document last?".
>
> And, okay, if the database hasn't been packed you can browse through the
> undo log to find it, but doesn't people agree that this information
> needs to be stored in the object itself? Particularly when Dublin Core
> already has a Contributors attribute.
>
>
> (Strictly speaking my feature request is for ATContentTypes and not
> archetypes, so please direct me to another list if necessary)
>
>
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