Re: [xwiki-users] Changing the version summary; was: Adding a custom field to a page - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

9 Jan 2014

Hi Clemens,

I don't think it's useful for me to make use of the version summary in this case.
It doesn't do what I need it to do.  I'll find a different approach to solve this
problem.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Sunil

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 Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:57:13 +0100
From: Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar &lt;c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com&gt;
To: users(a)xwiki.org
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Changing the version summary; was: Adding a
    custom field to a page
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Hi Sunil,

  Hi,

 Is it possible to change the value of a page's 'version summary' after it
saved?  How can I do this using the UI?

You cannot do that via the UI; any change in wiki content should be versioned so everybody
can see who changed what.
In theory it would be possible to make the version summary itself versioned, but so far I
know of no wiki system doing this.

What you can do via the UI, however, is delete the revision with the version summary in
case you have Admin rights.

E.g. if the problem is concerning the most recent revision, just edit the page and type in
the correct version summary, and save the page without changing anything else.
This will create a new version with the correct version summary.
Then you can look up the versions in the history tab and press the "Delete" link
for the version with the misspelled version summary.

Alternatively in case you do not want to delete the version but need to get rid of some
version summary where someone pasted passwords by accident, you can do this directly in
the database; the text is in the column XWR_COMMENT of the table xwikircs

Hope this helps
Clemens