MOD request : Edit auditing - Posted (2031 Views)
pitstraight
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Is there such a thing as an audit log for editing ? I have stopped people deleting posts but they sometimes edit (up to weeks later) and remove good content.
What I would like to see is that when an edit happens, the original post gets sent to another table or something with a date/time and a link to the original post. This should happen for EVERY edit, so if a user changes a post 3 times, there is 3 records created with the before & after post, the link and the time it happened.<
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AnonJr
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no existing MOD to do this. While it is technically possible, and I agree that it would be a good thing from a conceptual standpoint, I'm not sure I would actually implement something like this unless I've got a lot of data storage to burn. wink<
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Mr Pink
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Have you tried this mod to stop members editing posts?
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=56791
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Last edited by Mr Pink on 31 January 2008, 16:28
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AnonJr
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Good idea - I forgot about that one.<
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muzishun
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I've used that mod myself, and it is quite useful. Should do what you need.<
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pitstraight
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But I don't want to stop them, I just want an audit trail. The data storage would be a lot less than the normal posts because not every post is editted and usually not editted multiple times. I don't allow deletes at all, but I just want to track the changes that are made ... there's not a lot of changes made, but I need to see what has changed when it does occur.<
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phy1729
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I don't know how you would implement this but could you track all changes on the reply table and use the db to track and not the forum code?<
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pitstraight
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Would it work that way ?
I just don't know how to code it which is why I posted here.<
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AnonJr
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I'm confused now... in your original post it sounds like you don't want to loose the information that they posted, and that you are somewhat unnerved by them editing/removing the information weeks after it was posted; but now you don't want to stop them, just have a record of it happening, which would imply that you aren't bothered by them editing/removing the information... which is it?<
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pitstraight
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I don't want them to loose the edit facility altogether, I just want an audit trail of all edits made. I didn't think it would be this hard.
Other forum software I've heard can track the edits so I thought it would be good for Snitz to have this feature and I use Snitz as well.<
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muzishun
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Are you wanting to keep track of the actual data changed or simply the date/time changes were made? The second would be less overhead on the database, but the first is what it sounds like you're wanting.
I can see both sides of this. It sounds like it could be highly useful, but very space-hogging at the same time.<
Bill Parrott
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