Question

hello, I want to rollback a older revision but the edit - link is disabled (cancelled). I'm in the TWikiAdminGroup? .

Who can help me ?

Environment

-- TobiasFr - 06 Aug 2004

Answer

There is no "click here to rollback to this version" feature.

The best approach to restore an old revision is to:

1. go to the revision number which you want to restore,
2. add &raw=on to the URL, and copy the content.
3. go to the current revision and edit the topic as normal,
4. replace all the text with the copied previous version.

This way a full audit trail is maintained and people are secure in the knowledge that stuff doesn't just silently disapear.

An alternate approach are the commands delRev to delete a rev and repRev to replace one. The instructions for both are at the end of lib/TWiki.cfg. Please note that these features should be used with care. They leave no trace -- a new revision number is not created. Your users will lose trust in the system if they know that periodically the revision system is being sidestepped.

-- MattWilkie - 09 Aug 2004

TWikiTopics#Reviewing_and_Reverting

-- WillNorris - 09 Sep 2005