Drupal has had revisions for a long, long time. However, they have often been under-utilized. Since the release of Drupal 8.x support for revisions has increased. Understanding how revisions work and how the Content Moderation module works with them is important to for being able to take full advantage of the systems features.
In this tutorial we’ll:
- Explain what the different types of revisions are
- Understand when, and how, revisions are created
By the end of this tutorial you should have an understanding of what each type of revision is, how they’re created, and how to work with them.
Goal
Define what pending, default, and past revisions are, and when they are used, so that when you create a custom editorial workflow you’ll have a better understanding of how revisions are used.
Prerequisites
- Overview of Workflows and Content Moderation
- 6.1. Adding a Content Type (Drupal User Guide)
- 6.3. Adding Basic Fields to a Content Type (Drupal User Guide)
What is a revision?
When content like a blog post is edited, Drupal can be configured to retain a copy of the current version, and create a new version alongside it. Over time you might end up with many different versions of the same blog post, each reflecting a previous variant. While all of these different copies are stored in the database, only one of them is the one that’s used when you navigate to the blog post in your browser.
This is similar to tracking changes in a Word document, or being able to review the history of a file in a version control system like Git.
What is a default revision?
When visiting a page of content, or when a custom block is loaded on a page, Drupal needs to decide which revision to load. Therefore a revision is singled out as the default revision, indicating that without any other context this is the one that should be used.
This is also commonly referred to as the published revision.
Drupal’s default behavior when saving content is to create a new revision that contains any updates, and then make that new revision the default revision, unless something steps in to change that. Content Moderation is one such module that can apply a series of criteria to decide whether the content should be saved as a default revision or a pending revision.
What is a pending revision?
Using modules like Content Moderation it is possible to create a revision that is newer than the currently published revision. This is called a pending revision.
Pending revisions are not a new concept to Drupal 8, or any version of Drupal. However, they are now more visible with modules such as Content Moderation exposing them.
Before Content Moderation was added to Drupal core a module such as Workbench Moderation was needed to create a pending revision. When saving a new content revision without such a module, each revision is saved as a default revision.
What is a past revision?
Once a new default revision is created, the old revision then become a past revision. You can think of past revisions as representing a previous state of the content, while a pending revision represents a possible future state.
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