[Zope] URGENT -Version Blow-Up

[Dan Shafer]

Oliver...

Thanks for the help. Your suggestion that I try to delete the version from 
the Control Panel - a feature I didn't even know existed until I got your 
reply - did the trick.

At 02:29 PM 5/12/2002 +0200, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
>Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>>I have managed to get myself into a gnarly position from which I cannot 
>>find an escape route. The site I'm building is currently absolutely 
>>unusable as a result.
>>I was making extensive changes to a page, so I created a version (called 
>>"adding scripts" -- notice the space, which I think may be a culprit 
>>here). I started using the version, made the changes to the page in 
>>question, saved changes, tested the page and, after a few more tweaks, 
>>got it where I wanted it.
>>So I went to the version page figuring I'd commit the changes. It said 
>>there were no unsaved changes. I stopped using the version and when I 
>>went back to the ZMI, the changed page had a version lock on it and there 
>>was no unlocked/original version of the page showing up. That's when I 
>>noticed that even though I had quit using the version in question, the 
>>page still showed that I was using it.That's also when I noticed that the 
>>top of the page that showed what version I was using called the version 
>>simply "adding" rather than "adding scripts." After several more start 
>>using - stop using sequences, I could not get out of this morass.
>>I restarted the Zope server. No effect.
>>I quit using the version and deleted the version object. I know, bad 
>>move, but I did not receive a warning from Zope about this. It just 
>>happily deleted the version, an action which I later found out was undoable.
>>So now Zope thinks I am working in a non-existent version and it won't 
>>let me use the site past a certain point (even though the process I'm 
>>testing with doesn't even use the changed page). I get a version lock error.
>>This is clearly a Catch-22. Is there any way out of this? This is the 
>>first thing I've run into in the ZMI that seems to me just not to work 
>>very well or to be documented clearly or something. I've used versions in 
>>the past successfully, and this just has me bewildered. And my client 
>>very angry.
>>HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Dan, first, backup your Data.fs.
>Second, I only can repeat something out of my memory, cause I don't have 
>access to a zope ATM. But I see several things you can do:
>
>- In the control panel, there's also the possibility to save/discard 
>versions, take a look there.
>- You can always (re-)create a version you need, because zope identifies 
>versions only from their path, so recreating the a version with the right 
>idea might be a possibility.
>- Entering version just means sending the right cookie, so you can write 
>your own method which sends the cookie in order to enter that version.
>So, maybe entering that version and doing copy&paste might be a last resort.
>- Maybe importing/exporting might be possible, though I don't know if 
>(how) it's possible to export versioned data.
>
>cheers,
>oliver
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