One revision per workflow [#2313339]

I'd like to prevent revisions being created everytime a node is updated, rather only created a new revision when a user creates a new draft and all subsequent updates would just update that revision.

The reason for this is that a user may sometimes edit a node up to 20 times before it's ready to be published and this is somewhat detracting from the usefulness of revisions as it's hard to pinpoint the revision at which the content was in good condition.

I understand fundamentally that this is not how Workbench Moderation works and so I was wondering if it could be acheived using the Drupal node API plus using some functions from Workbench moderation.

If you could let me know whether or not you think this might be possible and roughly how much effort it might entail that would be a great help.

Thanks for the great module by the way. It really is a shining example of a well built module.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	one_revision-2313339-5.patch	5.67 KB	sime
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#2	one_revision-2313339-2.patch	5.59 KB	plopesc
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Comment #1

mauricio.tollin CreditAttribution: mauricio.tollin commented 8 August 2014 at 02:26

This is a good thing that I would like to see.

Comment #2

plopesc

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CreditAttribution: plopesc commented 5 September 2014 at 11:43

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one_revision-2313339-2.patch	5.59 KB

Hello. I needed this feature and here is the patch I created to only provide one draft per node. This avoid flooding the database with undesired revisions.

This patch adds a new set of radios in the node edit form where the user can select the deafult Workbench moderation behavior or the only one draft per node approach.

Patch has been done against 7.x-1.3 version.

Regards