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I've been editing a dozen identical blocks on one page. I made one little mistake - I deleted the wrong column in the content block. There's no way to undo. I've got to discard ALL my edits to that page.

Thanks Concrete5, I relish the opportunity to redo all that work...

Lesson learned.
Make one change; Exit edit (assign a comment); Edit page again...
Make another change; Exit edit (assign a comment); Edit page again...
Make another change; Exit edit (assign a comment); Edit page again...
...

DaveC426913
 
tallacman replied on at Permalink Reply
tallacman
Another lesson:
Backup your database before editing.
boomgraphics replied on at Permalink Reply
boomgraphics
I am confused about what happened. How were you editing 12 different blocks, and what is a column? You talking about in the database, or in an html table? Or a layout column? :-/
DaveC426913 replied on at Permalink Reply 2 Attachments
DaveC426913
I am editing content within the concrete 5 editor framework. I've got a page of a dozen executive bios, each is its own block and each block has two columns, one for the blurb one for the mugshot.

My task is to *move the mugshot into the blurb, eliminating the extra column*. (see the difference between the middle to bios in the attached screengrab a - James' bio has one column, while Lucy's still has two).

When you remove a column [Edit layout > columns=1] it always removes the rightmost column, so if the blurb is on the right (as it was in James' bio), I've accidentally blown away the blurb. There is no way to undo this.

And, unless I have *just* saved (which involves exiting edit mode, adding a version comment AND publishing) I either lose that block permanently, or I am forced to discard *all* my changes since my last publish.


A separate issue but one that dramatically exacerbates the above, is that it is easy to corrupt the block, such that it cannot be accessed at all ('Access denied'), and must be deleted and redone. (I am managing to corrupt the block by adding some styling - see screengrab b).
boomgraphics replied on at Permalink Reply
boomgraphics
Oh. That is WAY more complicated than it needs to be. You definitely need to get jordanlevs designer content block maker (free!) and make a simple block for this. I made a block for just this purpose in five minutes, no coding required. You'll love it. :-)