Damien Morton wrote:
How do you access the fabled time travel features of Zope?
Reading through the source I see that you can open a database in read only mode and specify the point in time that that view is for.
Would it be possible to mount the same data.fs multiple times in read-only mode, each mounting with a different temporal view?
Is there some other mechanism by which the time-travel feature can be accessed? Ideally it would be possible to create a temporal view of the database much like one would create a version, but that the view would be enabled by traversing through that view in the URL.
See the history tab of DTML methods.
For example, http://foo.com/nov3/x/y/z would be a view of the database at nov3, where the actual time and date of the view would be specified in the nov3 object.
That would be spiffy! It would be fun to visit: http://mysite.com/HistoricalRevisions/2000Jan01/manage It's also very doable. Of course, time travel restrictions would have to be imposed. (Zope will produce a "temporal paradox" exception if you do the right thing. It's something of an easter egg IMHO.) Shane