Cobalt 8.542 is missing the archive menu option on record pages

Because we do not have archive feature. It wa only confusing people. Although you could change status to archived, but there was no way to list archived articles.

There must be a better way to handle this. Features should not be removed in minor product versions, especially when their removal is undocumented. Backward-compatibility is important if anyone is going to use your product in their development.

Additionally, this does not actually remove all the functionality. It can still be done from the administrator side.

We have been using your product for more than a year, and are dependent on this, but the administrator-side is not sufficient for our needs, and we hate to patch 3rd party code unless absolutely necessary.

Could you possibly make this an optional config setting that is off by default? Then those of us that still use it could continue to do so without patching your code every time we update.

Thanks for your consideration.

After you archive record, what happence? how user access it then?

We do not need the user to access it. It is like deleting it, but the record is still in the database. This is important for us, because we need to be able to perform some actions afterwards, which requires us to know the field values of the record. We treat this as a delete operation for users, but with our post-delete operations still having access to the values stored in the record.

Sergey how user access it then?

As far as I remember, "archived" is just another value in DB column "published". I remember I tried the archive option in backend, and it changed "published" from 1 -> 2

What about adding this to Records module parameters? i.e. show only archived.

I might have ask before... but why did you remove/disable the archive status? Because of user's "hide this record" feature?

You can use hide option. Or unpublish. That will do absolutely the same.

Sergey You can use hide option. Or unpublish. That will do absolutely the same.

o.k. but HIDE is generally used for "Drafts" or tempoprary removal by the author. And PUBLISH is generally used for approval workflow. So, a separate "ARCHIVE" feature still makes sense, IMHO. Also for special section listings and modules (show only archived).

pepperstreet So, a separate "ARCHIVE" feature still makes sense

I agree. But it does not work. There is no actual archive. It only hides the same like unpublish. The only difference in backend that unpublish article has 0 and archived has -1 in published field of DB.

So, since there is no posibility to list only archived records, unpublish is just the same.

Sergey So, since there is no posibility to list only archived records, unpublish is just the same.

Yep, i know. But what was the actual problem with the cobalt list menuItem parameter? It is still there. Also, Cobalt API seems to lack the "archived" status completely. I guess, it should be used in "view_what", right?

pepperstreet But what was the actual problem with the cobalt list menuItem parameter?

It is not there I think. It was there bun never worked as expected.

Sergey It is not there I think

Current Cobalt 8 version!

Just removing the Cobalt frontend feature is not enough. Remove it completely OR keep it (and make it work!). ;)

pepperstreet (and make it work!)

I whish to do that. I'll try to improve it in cobalt 9. But for now I'll not change anything in Cobalt 8. Let it be like it is now.