Workflow with intermediate releases
I'm a new user, and couldn't find this particular issue in the documentation, and know it will be something I'll encounter often:
What is the recommended workflow to handle document changes in Scroll Versions for intermediate releases that are created -after- a "later" release?
For example: My current content is all in v1.0. I create a version 2.0 (with 1.0 as the preceding version) and start creating page updates to reflect 2.0's changes. The version tree is nice and linear, awesome. Suddenly, we need a 1.5 release, so a 1.5 version is created, also using 1.0 as the preceding version. I have to add in v1.5 changes to the same page that will also house v2.0 changes. The version tree is now branched.
I would expect that i'd be able to make the v1.5 changes, then either: 1) Merge 1.0 and 1.5 together, and those changes should be carried through to 2.0, or 2) Change the "Preceding Version" for 2.0 to v1.5, making the tree linear again. However, when I tested these out, neither of these options appear to actually include the 1.5 changes in the 2.0 versions of the pages. Can you clarify the recommended process to handle this type of situation?
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Hi Christina,
the 'preceding version' functionality doesn't quite work that way.
When a new version is created with a preceding version, there are actually no pages created. When a page of the new version is shown, that hasn't been edited in the actual version yet, the content of the page in the preceding version is shown ('fallback').
As soon as the page gets edited in the actual version, a page is created for this version with the content of the preceding version. From now on, the two pages are independent of each other. That means that if the page in the preceding version gets changed, the actual page doesn't get touched at all.So the preceding version functionality only considers whole pages, not the content.
That's why the changes of your version 1.5 aren't taken over to version 2.0, when the page already has been edited, because the two pages are independent of each other.
I hope this helps to clarify this issue. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.
Cheers,
Peter
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