Use of AppendOnlyHistory Control in a Page Layout

Hi,
I got a multiline text field in SharePoint 2010 with Append Changes to Existing Text applied. Now I'm trying to use this field in a Page Layout. I have added the field to the Content Type and on the Page Layout I've added a AppendOnlyHistory Control.
<SharePointWebControls:AppendOnlyHistory FieldName="MyNotesAppendableField" runat="server" />
This works fine in display mode and I can see all my comments and who made them and when. But as soon as I edit the page the field is not displayed. Also if I save my page there will be a new comment added with the same text as the last comment.
A field with Append Changes to Existing works such that you need to have versioning enabled on the list and then when you show the appended comments you actually only show the versions. I guess that's why the same text gets appended every time I save
the page. It takes the current value stored in my field and then append it again.
However if I go to Edit Properties on the page instead of editing the page, I get the field included in the form and I can add my own comment.
AppendOnlyHistory has a Property called ControlMode that I should be able to set to Display, Edit. But it doesn't matter what I set this to or if I set it. The same result will happen anyway.
Maybe I'm supposed to use a standard FormField or NoteField Control instead of AppendOnlyText, but I havn't managed to get that to work either. If I use a FormField, when in edit mode I will see the field and be able to add a comment the right way,
but the field will be pre populated with my last comment added.
Anyone got any conclusions on this?

Hi,
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Hi Team,
I am SharePoint 2013 developer. Before asking question I would like to explain the requirement in clarity.
We are developing one O365 SharePoint online site which is having 10 different page layouts with different and some common webparts and we are reusing these page layouts by deploying a sandboxed solution which is having page layouts. These page layouts contain
filter and query to display data using some condition and predefined values. By using these layouts we have to create 100+ pages. All pages will show data according to that page name and category (if it belongs any). We have not written any code to develop
the site, everything is OOB feature.
We have used below feature/list/lib of SP Online 2013:
- Document Library
- Survey
- Calendar
- Lists
- Discussion forum library
- OOB Search feature
Now, I would like to know whether this is the right approach to reuse the page layouts. Or can we add webparts directly where the logic resides in the webparts and add them to the pages instead of page layouts?
Also how to deploy page layouts/pages from one server to another? Currently we are deploying everything as a feature using sandbox solution.
Could you please let me know the right approach to follow. I am asking this question because we are facing below issues:
- Sometime page layouts gets corrupted, showing nothing.
- All written filters/logic disappear when we open layouts in Designer
- Deployment is pain using Sandbox solution
Waiting for your reply.
Thanks in Advance,
Shifa Mittal

Interesting question, to which i do not know a definitive answer.
Output Caching is used to increase performance and to reduce load on the box. However since you're in the MS Cloud you don't need to worry about the latter and MS do the worrying about the former. I wouldn't be surprised if MS have updated the behaviour
for O365 and not updated the documentation. That first office.com article is using 2010 screenshots which doesn't fill me with confidence about it's continuing relevance. Don't forget that SharePoint 2013 and O365 are technically different versions and have
very different behaviour in places.
Generally i'd say not to worry, but in this case if you do find any more information i'd love to see it.

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I am not asking for source code as proof. I am asking for an Elements file that does NOT reference anything AT ALL inside the Visual Studio solution for reasons I just described.
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