Next/previous navigation in history view

[davisagli]

It would be nice to have next/previous buttons to jump between revisions in the history view.

Also document how to reach the history view.

[AnshulKahar2729]

Can you add the screenshot of it? Which history?

[glenmiracle18]

How do you want to implement this?

[sammyifelse]

hey @davisagli can you please elaborate about your issue and where you want the buttons

[stevepiercy]

@davisagli I edited your issue description. Evidently newcomers don't know how to reach the history view or read the Volto Release Notes for v16.0.0, and I had to scan the code to find it.

Even then, it appears on the Plone demo's history view for a given page does not do much, other than display a table of publication history. I can't view a diff or any details of what actually changed. I think that hidden detail history view is what you want to have next/previous on, correct?

[davisagli]

@stevepiercy There's a ... menu for each revision, off screen to the right in your screenshot, which lets you view the diff. Yeah, that's where it'd be handy to have an easier way to go forward/back without returning to the listing.

[stevepiercy]

@davisagli I don't see the stoplight icon anywhere. Does a site setting need to be enabled?

Sample HTML from a typical row in the table:

<tr class="">
    <td class=""><span></span></td>
    <td class=""><span>Create (undefined → Private)</span></td>
    <td class="">admin</td>
    <td class=""><time datetime="2023-07-06T21:35:21+00:00" title="Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 2:35 PM">7/6/2023</time></td>
    <td class=""></td>
    <td class=""></td>
</tr>

[davisagli]

Look at a row that is based on a CMFEditions revision created on save, not a workflow transition.

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[stevepiercy]

I added a text block. It does not show up in the history. Is that a "CMFEditions revision"?

[davisagli]

@stevepiercy Those are all workflow transitions. I don't think you have versioning enabled for this content type.

As far as I know, the control panel to enable versioning for a content type is only available in the Classic UI so far. And I don't know if there is a way to access the Classic UI for demo.plone.org

Anyway, this is a really low priority feature suggestion and I'm not going to spend more time on it now.

[stevepiercy]

Understood. At least now there is sufficient information in this issue so that a first-timer can pick it up and run with it. They'll need to install Plone and visit the backend to enable the history view for each content type, if it is not enabled by default.