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I am wondering if it is possible to have two record-sets for each user; one "old", and one "new". We want to be able to see the "old" data, even after a user has changed it. This is because our users (senior citizens) are not that IT-savy, and it has already happened multiple times that they want to change their data but it just ends up garbled, and it's hard to contact them because it's exactly that contact data they mess up. Of course we could make two fields for every item (NameOld/NameNew, AdressOld/AdressNew, CityOld/CityNew), but then after each e-mail in which we ask them to update their data we have to manually copy the applicable fields.

So what we would like is the possibility to see the data as it was before the last change. Of course users can change their data multiple times and if they screw up two times it's still gone, but if we could see only the previous version it would be a great improvement.
Hope it's possible; thanks for any help in advance.

Thank's for the quick reply. Guess we'll have to make an export as a backup before we ask them to update their data.

yes, there is a Profile pre and post hook called before/after we create a contact via a profile

check

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmpre

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