Hi All,

I'm currently busy with a project that requires me to save versions of a text input connected to a Member.
How i imagined it is as follows; I have a Member that has a $has_many relation to the DataObject ProjectDescription.
So every time a Member would save his/her project description it would create an altered copy of the previous description (if there is a last one).

The problem i'm having now is how would i go about the creating a copy and saving a new one. Because it is connected to a Member i would first need to get the Current Member and his/her last Description. but then what? Do i populateDefaults with the previous data, then save a new one onBeforeWrite ?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Bram

Hi Bram,

There is an extension already created for this. Unfortunately it is coupled to having staged content also, but it may be able to be applied without stages (so hopefully would just track versions.)

The class you're looking for is Versioned
To see an example of how it works, check the CMS's SiteTree.php (Pages use Versioned to have a draft & live content, along with tracking all changes on save).

Hi! Thanks for the answer, this was exactly what i as looking for!
I don't need to use the staging but the historical versions is exactly what i needed.