Versioning of content

In an enterprise environment the possibility of versioning content is very important. Within pimcore everything can be versioned in a custom way. This, of course, includes web content, assets – also including digital assets transferred via WebDAV – and database objects. Pimcore makes it easy to switch between versions and the version annotation feature helps editors to remember content changes. Pimcore also integrates a version compare feature, which makes it easy to see the difference between certain versions of a web site.

Pimcore’s versioning feature keeps dated or serialized copies of all the different versions of a piece of content. This allows the scheduling of content on and off the web. It also allows Rollback of content (perhaps even the whole website) to a previous version. Old versions become an Archive of content. In this sense, Versioning is an aspect of VersionControl.

Versioning also describes multiple versions of a piece of content, created for different purposes. A derivative becomes a new piece of content, and a version of the original. When different versions are prepared for different audiences (Personalization), it is not unlike the multi-channel delivery to different hardware devices.