Feature #2503

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Added by Thomas Rekittke about 3 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:Closed Start date:2009-01-13
Priority:Normal Due date:
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Category:Issues
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Description

It is a pitty that changes of the description of an issue are nowhere stored. So you can never be sure, the description is what is was or what it should be :-)

I built a workaround for myself, by copying the description to a shallow wiki-page, where I can see the history. Obviously more a bad hack, than a good solution. I paste the patch anyhow to illustrate what could be a solition. Using the wiki as "storage" for the history is maybe not such a bad idea after all.

Index: /usr/local/workspace/redmine/app/models/issue.rb
===================================================================
--- /usr/local/workspace/redmine/app/models/issue.rb    (revision 2263)
+++ /usr/local/workspace/redmine/app/models/issue.rb    (working copy)
@@ -152,7 +152,21 @@
                                                       :prop_key => c.custom_field_id,
                                                       :old_value => @custom_values_before_change[c.custom_field_id],
                                                       :value => c.value)
-      }      
+      }
+      # edit corresponding wiki page if of type use case
+      if self.tracker_id == 6 and @issue_before_change.description != self.description  # only tracker 6. hard coded magig number, brrr :-( 
+          wiki_page = self.project.wiki.find_or_new_page( subject )
+       wiki_page.content = WikiContent.new(:page => wiki_page) if wiki_page.new_record?
+        content = wiki_page.content_for_version( nil )
+        content.comments = nil
+          content.text = self.description
+          content.author = User.current
+          wiki_page.new_record? ? wiki_page.save : content.save          
+      end
       @current_journal.save
     end
     # Save the issue even if the journal is not saved (because empty)

Related issues

related to Patch #1717: Show diff for issue description change Closed 2008-07-30
duplicates Feature #746: Versioned issue descriptions Closed 2008-02-27
duplicated by Defect #3612: Changing original content of the issue won't leave any lo... Closed 2009-07-13

History

#1
Updated by Mischa The Evil about 3 years ago

See patch #1717 which holds a working patch to adress this issue. It also provides an idea of implementing it in the core.

I'll relate the issues...

#2
Updated by Thomas Rekittke about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved

#3
Updated by Robert Pollak almost 3 years ago

In which Redmine release is or will this be contained?

#4
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to New

Wrapped the code into pre-tags and corrected the issue-status.

#5
Updated by Martin Schneider over 2 years ago

Thomas Rekittke wrote:

It is a pitty that changes of the description of an issue are nowhere stored. So you can never be sure, the description is what is was or what it should be :-)

Independent from the implementation, this is a great feature! Please make this feature part of the core. Additionally it would be nice if the comments would have a history too. So the "can edit comments" rule gets a new aspect.

BTW:
Thanks for Redmine! It is pretty cool!

#6
Updated by Marek Kreft over 2 years ago

Hi,

When can we expect this feature (or its alternative) to be implemented in Redmine core?

#7
Updated by Marek Kreft over 2 years ago

Hello again.

This is what I figured out today. I think that this small fix improves things quite well.

In place of

 if self.tracker_id == 6 and @issue_before_change.description != self.description  # only tracker 6. hard coded magig number, brrr :-( 
+          wiki_page = self.project.wiki.find_or_new_page( subject )
+       wiki_page.content = WikiContent.new(:page => wiki_page) if wiki_page.new_record?
+        content = wiki_page.content_for_version( nil )
+        content.comments = nil
+          content.text = self.description
+          content.author = User.current
+          wiki_page.new_record? ? wiki_page.save : content.save          
+      end

I've added this

     if @issue_before_change.description != self.description  
        @current_journal.details << JournalDetail.new(:property => 'cf',
                                                      :prop_key => 'description',
                                                      :old_value => @issue_before_change.description,
                                                      :value => self.description)

It was tested on trunk version and works like charm.

#8
Updated by Felix Schäfer over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Closing this issue in favor of #746.

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