Article “Last Updated” timestamp changes without content edits

Article “Last Updated” timestamp changes without content edits

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Articles & Templates
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katerinach
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Description

Opening an article in the editor appears to trigger an autosave that updates the “Last Updated” timestamp, even when no content changes are made. I think this was not the issue before the new UI that's why I am opening this report. In any case, the “Last Updated” timestamp should only change when actual content edits are made.

Steps to Reproduce

– Open an existing article in the editor – Make no edits (don't even click in the article content) – Open the article in your world
  • Check the Metadate section
    • – The “Last Updated” timestamp is changed

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    Comments and updates to this report

    katerinach Assignee
    Assigned katerinach
    Syarx Developer

    can you tell us an article of yours this happens to?

    Make lore, not war
    Of course, here you are: Article 1   If you need more, this happened to a great number of my entries from this world, as I was just navigating the dashboard and without making any changes in the articles themeselves.
    katerinach Assignee

    Hey, I tried to reproduce this and couldn't, I also ran a test with the article you linked specifically and it didn't automatically update its updateDate. Is there a chance you changed the order of this or any other article inside its parent category? Because that is one case I can think of where a change is made indirectly without editing the article's content.
    And can you still reproduce it? Btw are you using the Article & World Manager interface or the Old Version edit page?

    katerinach Assignee
    Added tag Waiting for Response
    Make lore, not war

    It seems I cannot recreate it, which is weird. The article I sent you before was one that I placed in a different category, so probably that was the reason for the change on the timestamp (I didn't know this would happen until recently), but this also happened to articles that I merely opened (in the new editor if I remember correctly) like this one. I opened it again just now both in the old version edit and the new one, but the last update didn't change this time.

    I will ask the other person that also noticed that behavior to take a look and share her finds here as well.

    katerinach Assignee

    Thanks for the additional information and testing, I will be waiting for your response after the other user tries again!

    loupon-deleted
    This is really strange! I've just tried to re-create it but haven't been able to. It was definitely an issue in the earlier versions, as there was a lot of discussion in the discord server about it as well.
    katerinach Assignee

    This was indeed an issue previously (some weeks ago) and was affecting users who had the Expanded Prompts feature on - perhaps part of what you saw was due to that, which has been resolved! Perhaps another fix fixed your case as a byproduct as well, but for now I will be closing this report and feel free to comment here if you manage to reproduce it again.

    katerinach Assignee
    set this bug to closed
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