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Change notes entered in the edit form are never submitted #129

Description

@mliebischer

Problem

The edit form (@@edit) offers a change-note field (schema-driven via the plone.versioning behavior), but a note entered there never shows up afterwards — neither in the @@history view's "Change note" column nor in the @history REST payload.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Edit any versionable content via @@edit.
  2. Fill in the change-note field and save.
  3. Open @@history for that content.
  4. The new versioning entry has an empty "Change note".

Analysis so far

  • The History view is not the culprit: its "Change note" column renders the comments field from the @history endpoint, and entries that do have comments (e.g. created through Volto) display fine.
  • changeNote is not handled anywhere in @plone/cmsui outside the History view, so the edit route most likely never includes the note in the PATCH request.
  • Prior art: Volto's form sends changeNote along with the save request, and plone.restapi passes it to the versioning machinery.

Expected behavior

A change note entered in the edit form is submitted with the save request and appears as the comments of the resulting versioning entry in @history / the @@history view.

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Activity

  1. added theissue type on Jun 11, 2026
  2. self-assigned this
    on Jun 12, 2026
  3. moved this from In progress to In review in Pole Position Sprint 2026on Jun 12, 2026
  4. moved this from Backlog to In progress in Beethoven Sprint 2026on Jun 12, 2026
  5. added 2 commits that reference this issue on Jun 12, 2026
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