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Visually indicate when an asset becomes "dirty"

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Idea by mike.strauch about 1 year ago Favorite-off - Open

When an asset that is marked as “should be published” is modified, it should be displayed differently in the left nav until it is published again.  This way it is easier to keep track of which assets are “dirty”; and by “dirty” i mean that the last modified time > last published time.

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  • 1 point Thumb-up Thumb-down Favorite-off by irifkin about 1 year ago Permalink
    It's an intereseting idea. Some things to keep in mind:

    1) It would need to keep track of environments (e.g. this page has been published to "test" but not "production")
    2) It would need to know not only when the page itself was edited, but any of the blocks/XSLTs that changed the page's rendered content.
    • 0 points Thumb-up Thumb-down Favorite-off by bradley.wagner about 1 year ago Permalink
      I'm with you Ian. The complexity comes when you start considering all the different ways that you can "change" a page including Block, Format, Template, Page Configuration, Target changes.
      • 0 points Thumb-up Thumb-down Favorite-off by mike.strauch about 1 year ago Permalink
        Yeah, my thought was to keep this as simple as possible since you can easily get carried away with the different ways a page can be "changed".  So, doing the simple last modified time vs. last published time comparison, we could keep the scope of this feature very low.  For the future, however, we could always modify the way last modified time and last published time are updated so that assets are marked as dirty more frequently, but for now we could just settle with direct edits.

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