[Zope-CMF] Re: Workflow question

[Jens W. Klein]

Miles Waller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At the moment I have a simple private/publish workflow (not a 
> DCWorkflow, but on the filesystem).  Any user can edit anything that's 
> private, but once they press 'publish' it's locked: they or another user 
> must retract it before further changes can be made.  This all works 
> great, and in the workflow history you can see who retracted and 
> published it, and when.
> 
> However, I also want to record in the history each time the object is 
> changed.  So if User X edits something 5 times, then publishes it, the 
> history will show 5 edits and a publish.  An edit involves a call to the 
> object's 'edit' method, and I read in the list about how wrapping this 
> as a 'workflow method' could be used to do what I want, but then on the 
> same line how awful they were!!
> 
> So, does anyone know what the 'correct' way to go about doing this would 
> be?

And for the edits have a look at ATContentTypes and here HistoryAware. 
You just need a view, which bring both information together.

hth Jensens

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