[Booki-dev] History Tab

[John Curwood]

Hi Aco,

Thanks for the info.  By the way, I haven't discovered "any" new bugs
since you made the changes to Booki.

Cheers,

John

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 23:51 +0200, Aleksandar Erkalovic wrote:
> hi john,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:49 PM, John Curwood <info at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
> > You've done a fantastic job on Booki, the features that are now
> > available in the history tab are great, and the versioning feature looks
> > really cool, although I haven't spent much time looking at it yet.
> 
> thanx. you need to be owner of the book to fully experience versioning feature.
> basicly, you need to be book owner to create new versions.
> 
> > 1 - What does the "compare historically" button do? Nothing seems to
> > happen when I press it.
> 
> that is correct :) i did not finished it and forgot to remove it (for
> now). when it is
> done, it will show historical overview of changes. basicly, something like you
> have in twiki (fm.net) now.
> 
> also, diff is pretty ugly. i was lazy to make it more attractive (or functional)
> for now. that will be changed pretty soon.
> 
> > 2 - In the earlier version of Booki, when I clicked on the "minor change
> > don't notify" box before saving a chapter there was no records made in
> > the history of the changes i had made, now if I click on that box before
> > saving a chapter a history log is still created, is this correct? and if
> > so what effect does the 'minor change don't notify' box have?
> 
> this is a bug. will fix it. besides adding some visual features i also
> changed a lot
> of internal booki structure and code. so, some new bugs will come out.
> 
> > 3 - In the earlier version of Booki, values entered into the Author, and
> > Author comment text boxes at the bottom of a chapter were displayed in
> > the history tab. Now they are not, so what purpose do these two text
> > boxes have? why would a user enter values into them? and if they do have
> > a purpose where could the info recorded in these text boxes be
> > displayed?
> 
> these text boxes are used to record information about author in case when
> you are inserting someone's quote or doing copy+paste from other text.
> it is still being recorded, and that info is used int he list of book authors.
> i don't show if in history tab for now only because i did not know how to
> format it and where to show it. any ideas about that?
> 
> also, i am not sure list of authors now work after i introduces versions.
> i did not bother with it before because there was only one book version.
> but that is something i will have to look at tomorrow.
> 
> anyhoo, feel free to ask me anything. happy to help you.
> 
> aco
>