Revision history
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Each time Form Runner saves data to the database, it saves a new revision of the data. Each revision of the data has an associated timestamp.
Until Orbeon Forms 2023.1, the revision history was only accessible through the database, for auditing purposes, or for restoring an older version manually. Starting with Orbeon Forms 2023.1, Form Runner provides a user interface to access the revision history of a given form data.
Note that this feature is distinct from form definition versioning, which regards the versioning of published form definitions.
The feature is disabled by default. You can enable it globally by setting the following property to true:
This adds a "Revision History" icon in the navigation bar.
Activating the icon opens the Revision History pane:
The Revision History pane shows the list of revisions for the current form data, with the following information:
date and time of the change
username of the user that made the change, or "Anonymous user"
a description of the changes, including
value entered
value cleared
value changed
iteration added
iteration removed
other change
no change
For a given revision, you can click on the "View this revision" link to view the form data as it was at the time of that revision.
Blog post: Data Revision History
