Restore Edited Content

[panzerscope]

Hello all. 

I bet this is simple but I did not cone across an answer when searching.

If a user edits a post to destroy content, how would I go about restoring a post to its exact previous state ?

Thanks!

P

[Randy Calvert]

 ACP > System > Settings > Posting

What is your edit log set to?

If you're not logging edits or only logging that an edit was made, you wont be able to restore the content as it was not tracked.  If you are logging edits AND what was changed, you'll see below an edited post something like the following at the bottom of the edited post:

You would click on "see edit history" and you could see all of the changes.  They're listed most recent first.  Copy/paste the content you want and paste it into the edit screen of the post to restore it.  

Edited November 29, 2022 by Randy Calvert

[Marc Stridgen]

In addition to the above, it is usually wise to limit the amount of time a user can edit content on the site. This way a user would not be able to individually go through and wipe out every post

[panzerscope]

5 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

 ACP > System > Settings > Posting

What is your edit log set to?

If you're not logging edits or only logging that an edit was made, you wont be able to restore the content as it was not tracked.  If you are logging edits AND what was changed, you'll see below an edited post something like the following at the bottom of the edited post:

You would click on "see edit history" and you could see all of the changes.  They're listed most recent first.  Copy/paste the content you want and paste it into the edit screen of the post to restore it.  

Thanks very much:)

1 hour ago, Marc Stridgen said:

In addition to the above, it is usually wise to limit the amount of time a user can edit content on the site. This way a user would not be able to individually go through and wipe out every post

True, 

The problem is we have "Club" style topics which the OP will usually continually edit the first post with new information etc. This would then limit what users can do in these types of topics. 

That said though, If a user belonged to an additional Usergroup that allows unlimited editing, would that work ?

[Marc Stridgen]

If the user belonged to another group that allowed the editing, you would have the very same issue

[panzerscope]

5 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

If the user belonged to another group that allowed the editing, you would have the very same issue

Yes, but that would be ok as I would aim to put a select few that run clubs into such a usergroup. 

My aim being to restrict all other usergroups with limited editing and have one Usergroup that allows editing for the select few. 

[Marc Stridgen]

No problem. As long as you are aware of the limits on that 🙂 

[panzerscope]

Thanks:) 

I have looked at the editing permissions in the usergroups. Looks like you can only set the limit in Minutes. I'm guessing there is no way to set it to days ? 

[Randy Calvert]

1 hour ago, panzerscope said:

Thanks:) 

I have looked at the editing permissions in the usergroups. Looks like you can only set the limit in Minutes. I'm guessing there is no way to set it to days ? 

There are 1440 minutes in a day. So if you wanted 2 days, it would be 2880 minutes. 🙂 

[Marc Stridgen]

7 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

There are 1440 minutes in a day. So if you wanted 2 days, it would be 2880 minutes. 🙂 

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[panzerscope]

Thanks chums 🙂