Package README (CVS ver. 1.1.1.1)

About

  ArchiveStorage is a storage for holding a old version of an specified fields
  of an object. Additionally it works as sort of review storage and stores an
  working copy for editing while the object can be published (using the
  published
  version).
  On new publication the working copy will be copies to the archive and into the
  public copy which will be used for displaying to anonymous users.

  It's implemented as Archetype storage layer which stores the working copy
  in some subobject and the archive as list of (old) working copies in an
  archive
  subobject. So actually it's field based and you can define per field
  whether it's versioned by ArchiveStorage or not.

  AArticle shows an example with an example skin which shows how to use the
  archive
  actually.

  There's also a portal policy included which registers with Plone. If you want
  to
  use ArchiveStorage based objects then go to portal_migration and select the
  setup
  tab to apply the ArchiveStorage policy. Make sure not to select this on portal
  creation as this will not work. First create your Plone Site and then apply
  it.

  It will add a new workflow "archive_plone_workflow" which is based on the
  default
  plone workflow but allows a publish transition also when being in the
  published
  state (as you have a working copy there's no need to retract the object first
  for
  editing).  Moreover it adds a script which is called after the publish
  transition
  which does the actual publication of the object (copies the working copy to
  the
  archive and into the public copy).

Issues

  does not work yet with TextFields (never used them yet..) as they're objects
  which
  makes problem at the moment (there's a deepcopy somewhere which does not work
  on
  acquisition objects and somehow also not without.. also there might be more
  issues
  with that)

Dependencies

  Zope 2.x
  Archetypes 1.0 or later
  Plone 2.x or later

Author

  Written by Christian Scholz (cs@comlounge.net) in 2003-2004.

History

  created in second half of 2003 as client work.
  put into public cvs in Feb 2004.