Hidden Gems in Mango 1.5
A couple of improvements flew under the radar in the recent point release of Mango that I thought were worth mentioning so that you know you can take advantage of them. I believe both may be new to blogs using SQL Server to store their data, but were functional in Mango 1.4.x for blogs using MySQL.
First, the new database-logged errors and warnings are now properly exposed for SQL Server users, which means that LogViewer will once again give you access to view and delete log information. Unfortunately, if you were using LogViewer the problem that was keeping it from working in 1.4.x was something that itself was being logged, and frequently. If that's the case, the first time you get back into LogViewer, it'll have a lot of errors, which may end up being so much content to deliver to the browser or so much for your browser to render that it crashes. If that's the case, you can delete all of the records from the log table and that will make using LogViewer more manageable.
Second, Mango 1.4 also added revision tracking to posts and pages; and once again, it seemed not to work with SQL Server. I believe both of these features were affected by a single deeper problem. But now that the bug is fixed, you should see a new section at the bottom of the edit-post and edit-page pages that shows a list of revisions of the entry, if it's been edited at least once since the Revision Manager was added. From there, you can roll back to or compare with any previous revision of the same entry.
in Mango Posted 2010-07-07 09:00
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