As I understand only Properties that u can select from now are Node title, Authored on date and Authored by.
Why wouldnt this module just be option to post as comment in http://drupal.org/project/track_field_changes ?

thx.

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Title: Support for all node Fields » Consider merging with Track Field Changes module
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No, this module supports a variety of field types, not just a few node properties. Not sure why you think otherwise -- was there some incorrect documentation somewhere? If so, please say where, so we can fix it.

Although similar, looks like Track Field Changes is trying to do something a bit different than we are. It might be worth merging the two, but a) nodechanges exists and works well for what D7 Drupal.org needs, b) I don't have time to review track_field_changes to see if it would help us.

I'm not going to "won't fix", but I'm not going to be able to work on this.

Cheers,
-Derek

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My mistake, now it "works" on all fields. But I cant choose what fields to track, I can only choose additional 3 field properties.
Does it always track all the fields or am I missing something?

Track Field Changes has Views support and i was only suggesting merging cause of minimizing duplicate effort

Also i get bunch of - Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in field_load/formatter_view.
But I will file bug report when i investigate little more cause it now only works properly with properties and for other fields just prints field name.

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Right. In D7 certain aspects of a node are not actually "fields" in the pure Field API sense of the word. They're called "properties", and they're handled outside of the entire field system. For example, the node title (principally for performance reasons) and a few timestamps aren't actually fields, and the values are stored directly in the {node} table. nodechanges tracks all changes to fields automatically, and optionally also tells you about changes to some of these node properties, too.

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p.s. And yes, it always tracks all changes to all fields. The point of this module is really "show me everything that changed between two revisions" not "track changes to a specific field". But, perhaps it could be extended to let you decide which fields to track (or more accurately, to ignore)...

Cheers,
-Derek

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nbchip commented

Ok, Thank you very much.
It would be very useful to have ignore option.
So to make it clear, this module does not store changes in special table (and those no tracking) but it always adds comment with all fields that changed between last two edits.

thx.

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Correct. The only storage about the changes is the field you attach to the comment bundle.

If you want the ignore option, please submit that as a separate feature request, ideally with a patch. ;)

Let's leave this issue just to discuss the possibility of merging with Track Field Changes...

Thanks,
-Derek