David Davies: CommentaryThings that occur to me, not necessarily meaningful!(Untitled)- March 22, 2002 The following was originally posted to David Carter-Tod's Serious Instructional Technology (required reading incidentally) but as it might be generically useful I thought I'd reproduce it here. Comments are welcome, use the link beneath this article. Here's a little bit more detail about what we've done to develop our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) using Manila. It may not be relevant to most but it'll outline the thought processes we went through that lead to our decision to use Manila...http://david.davies.name/weblog/categories/commentary/2002/03/22.html#a159 (Untitled)- March 20, 2002 It seems that versioning in Manila is not only possible but also relatively easy. With even my clunky scripting skills I managed to set Manila up to allow a managing editor (or contributing editor for that matter) to restore any previous version of a message or story. An immediate application is a simple undo post feature but of course you could restore any version of a page. Alternatively you could use all versions as an audit trail of the development of a page. This is a really powerful...http://david.davies.name/weblog/categories/commentary/2002/03/20.html#a155 |