Hi, I found an old mail list item talking about a new function and just want to know if it now exists. I want to keep track of who modified some items along with the time and original creator. Tanks for any pointers, Chip Vanek e-Mail: chip@upcast.com Jim Fulton wrote: Ben Leslie wrote:

Hi everyone,

I hope someone could be able to help me here. I have quite a few people working out with me on a website I am creating. I would like to be able to track who last modified a certain page (not really a 'big brother' thing just useful).

I was wondering if there was a way to be able to find out who last

modified

a page.

Yes, but not as easily as there should be, and only from Python. ZODB3 exposes two interfaces for doing this. You should be able to: db=aDocument._p_jar.db() # Get the database the object came from history=db.history(aDocument._p_oid, size=9999) To get a sequence of history entries with information on when changes were made, by whom, in what version, description etc. See: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Models/ZODB/ZODB_Architecture_DB_history-- Callable_Doc.html Unfortunately, this method isn't implemented yet. :( I skipped over it early on and never got back to it. I'll try to get this done for Zope 2.1 (or Zope 2.0.1). I've submitted this bug to the collector. You might also use the undo log with something like: db=aDocument._p_jar.db() # Get the database the object came from log=db.undoLog(0,9999, lambda u, db=db: string.find(u['description'], db.absolute_url(1))==0 ) This will return a sequence of transaction log entries for methods on the document. See the undo section in the ZODB model at: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Models/ZODB Now, both of the suggestions above only work if you are using a ZODB storage that supports undo and they only show records that haven't been removed by packing. (Actually, undoLog only shows records that are undoable, which is not all records). In the future: - An auditing UI of some sort will be added that calls these methods for you and, - An optional feature will be added in storages to save auditing information in such a way that it is available independent of packing. Jim