Version differencing ala MS Word's "track changes"
Hi All,
We've got an existing site that's built in classic ASP. We're in the process of evaluating different content management systems to migrate the site to.
One of the things we really want to see happen is for staff to be able to send an updated document over to our editor, and for him to be able to quickly see what's been changed. What we envision is a Word-style "track-changes" type feature, where changes are highlighted. WinMerge is another tool that allows you to compare documents and have it highlight the changes.
I'm wondering, any way to do this with Umbraco? I haven't been able to find anything in Umbraco that will let me do this, but is it possible I'm just overlooking it?
I posted for the asp.net forums about this as well:
On content documents in umbraco you have the option to 'rollback'. In the rollback interface you can select a version to compare with the current version and you can view the difference (Red text will not be shown in the selected version. , green means added).
But if you want to send the changes to an editor I guess you'll need to add an extension.
[quote=tim]On content documents in umbraco you have the option to 'rollback'. In the rollback interface you can select a version to compare with the current version and you can view the difference (Red text will not be shown in the selected version. , green means added).[/quote]
That sounds like what we want.
Is there a demo of your product somewhere that we can try?
My problem with this feature is that the contrast of the red and green colours of the track changes is just too faint for some users.
What possibility is there to accentuate those colours?
This is precisely the sort of functionality that my team need to use in the CMS rather than unproductively doing these tasks in office software as web content is produced. I want the process to be as much within Umbraco as possible but this function needs to be at least as good as MS Office to gain the acceptance among team users.
Version differencing ala MS Word's "track changes"
Hi All,
We've got an existing site that's built in classic ASP. We're in the process of evaluating different content management systems to migrate the site to.
One of the things we really want to see happen is for staff to be able to send an updated document over to our editor, and for him to be able to quickly see what's been changed. What we envision is a Word-style "track-changes" type feature, where changes are highlighted. WinMerge is another tool that allows you to compare documents and have it highlight the changes.
I'm wondering, any way to do this with Umbraco? I haven't been able to find anything in Umbraco that will let me do this, but is it possible I'm just overlooking it?
I posted for the asp.net forums about this as well:
http://forums.asp.net/p/1393342/2985152.aspx
-Josh
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Hi Josh,
On content documents in umbraco you have the option to 'rollback'. In the rollback interface you can select a version to compare with the current version and you can view the difference (Red text will not be shown in the selected version. , green means added).
But if you want to send the changes to an editor I guess you'll need to add an extension.
[quote=tim]On content documents in umbraco you have the option to 'rollback'. In the rollback interface you can select a version to compare with the current version and you can view the difference (Red text will not be shown in the selected version. , green means added).[/quote]
That sounds like what we want.
Is there a demo of your product somewhere that we can try?
My problem with this feature is that the contrast of the red and green colours of the track changes is just too faint for some users.
What possibility is there to accentuate those colours?
This is precisely the sort of functionality that my team need to use in the CMS rather than unproductively doing these tasks in office software as web content is produced. I want the process to be as much within Umbraco as possible but this function needs to be at least as good as MS Office to gain the acceptance among team users.
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