Have you ever had a player edit a page and you’re not sure what they changed? Or, you moved one little thing around and suddenly all your pretty formatting is gone. Unfortunately, you just cannot remember what you changed! So, you spend hours trying to get back to the pristine page you had before you clicked the save button. If only there were a way to wind back the clock to before!
With our new version compare feature, it’s no longer a big deal! Now, whenever you save a wiki page, adventure log post, character, or item, the old version of the page is automatically stored away. You can easily view and revert to a previous version and everything is right with the world again. It’s pretty much like having a rewind button for your campaign pages.
As an added bonus, we’ve also made it easy to compare two versions and see what has changed. So, if you get a notification that a player has edited one of your wiki pages, you can do a quick comparison and instantly see what has changed. You no longer need fear that your players will sneak around and secretly edit things behind your back. Any such malfeasance is pretty much impossible now.
To use the new feature, just look for the sidebar like the one shown below. It will show the most recent versions, when they were made, and who the author was. You can click the link to view the version, or select two versions with the checkboxes and click compare.
Give it a whirl and tell us what you think!
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I like the new page edit history, but the history lets players see all of the GM sections and all of the GM+X Player sections. As my campaign is a compeditive affair this allows them to see much information that they aren’t supposed to see.
You have confirmed this with one of your players? It’s designed to hide the GM Only info comparison from the players and display it only to the GM (or co-GM).
Please send me a link ( support@obsidianportal.com ) to a page where a player can see GM Only info. Having an actual page to work with will help me troubleshoot what is going wrong.
Yep, you were right. I found the bug and fixed it.
Thanks for the bug report!
I wasn’t so sure how useful this would be when I first heard about the beta. I was also not sure how it would look but I have just tried out the “Compare” feature by clicking the buttons on two versions of both character sheet and wiki, and although I still don’t really know how much I will use it at this time, one word I will say is “WOW!”
It’s really not meant to be an everyday feature. Instead, it’s more of a safety net to prevent catastrophes. We’ve heard from several people about accidentally wiping out pages with a click of the Save button, or a player making a small edit that blows away all the formatting.
If this feature works as intended, you’ll never really know it’s there until you have an “Oh Crap!” moment. Then you’ll be very glad to use it.
Awesome, great feature, the red and green highlights make it easy to see what’s been added or deleted! Keep up the great work guys, the better OP is, the better our campaigns will be
Awesome! I know I have had a time or 50 where a page got wiped on accident. Nice feature! Thank you!
Versioning versioning versioning Yay! At long last! Huzzah! We finally have a true wiki! I can’t wait to try this out.
I was one of the testers of this, and it is amazing! I have used it multiple times in the last 3 weeks. It is especially useful if you are making major changes to a page or pages.
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You did this, but you can’t figure out how to let someone set the font on their pages?
Two points:
1) I’ve never said we “can’t figure it out” just that we have some issues to deal with first.
2) I can also see plenty of people complaining the other way: “Why waste time with window dressing like fonts when there are important features like the ability to undo a player mistake?”
Can’t please everyone all the time, I guess.
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I just wanted to go on record to say how great this feature is! I am one of the lucky GM’s that have players do some work on OP- but they do make a lot of errors. I used to have to crawl through the backup to find the fix- if I had backed it up recently enough. Now with a couple clicks mistakes are repaired! It is a lifesaver!!
looks good
I like it.