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Revising content - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Revising content
I've mentioned a few times that Drupal is a multiuser system, and it is, as you know, a content management system. Put those two together and you get the possibility of lots of people editing the same content and the danger of having them create what's called an edit war, where they write over each others' corrections. You'll learn how to permit or restrict access to node editing in the section on managing users. This video shows you how to keep track of node edits so at least you can untangle the history of a piece of content and then return it to a previous version if necessary. To demonstrate, I am going to make some changes to this About page that we added earlier on in the course. So we click About--that takes us to the node--and then click Edit. Now I have some text in our exercise files that I'm going to add to the end of that node. So I select it and copy it and go back and paste it. And I don't actually need this continuation text right here, so I'll take that out, and scroll…
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