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Row date in Visual Editor

Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Hi there,

What does the Edited date for a row in the paragraph list mean? It seems to be the same for all rows in all pages in my site, so to me it feels like it's just UI noise without (much) value. Or am I overlooking something?

Imar


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Jeppe Eriksson Agger Dynamicweb Employee
Jeppe Eriksson Agger
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Hi Imar,

That value, as the heading also states, is the last time the row was edited. On the surface, it may look strange that your rows have the same edit time, but there are a couple of reasons why that might be the case.

  1. If the page is copied as a language version from a master, then all content would have the same edited time
  2. If rows have been reorganized in the Visual Editor, then all affected rows are saved -- that could mean all rows depending on which were moved

I can't tell from the screenshot which of these scenarios is more likely -- especially since the columns (paragraphs) also have the same edit time -- but my guess would be a language version.

If you continue to see the timestamp being synchronized particularly if one of the previously mentioned scenarios doesn't apply, please let me know and I'll follow up on this.

- Jeppe

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Thanks Jeppe, both 1 and 2 make sense, but I wonder if it applies here. For #1, I am also seeing this on the master site (that was the basis for the translations). For #2, many pages in the site share the exact same update date.

Also, it seems that saving one row, updates the date for all of them (see attachment). There you can see the dates for all rows change when editing just one.

It's not super important, just a tad confusing.

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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I think I found part of the problem: the dates are updated when you recycle the app. See attached animated image. Reproduces for me on 9.10 as well as 9.12.

Imar

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