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 , 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 , 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 .
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.
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