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Restore Revisions
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James Peacock
in progress
Hi everyone
I’m happy to share that work is underway to tackle one of our longest-standing feature requests. Rather than wait and release everything in one big update, we’ll be rolling out the features gradually to continuously deliver improvements related to revisions and restorations over the coming months. Whilst subject to change, this is our current approach:
- Duplicating revisions to new items:One of the simplest methods of retrieving old content is to create new items with that content. This removes the need to implement complicated structure checking/mapping to restore content. On top of that, this approach will allow you to retrieve not just old content, but old structure too. The new items created with this method will be disconnected from any templates and instead use a custom structure, allowing you to then save that structure as a new template if desired.
- Restoring content to the same item (respective of structure):The next phase will be to allow you to restore content to the same item without the need to create new items,provided the structure of the latest version and the historic version are matching.We will be keeping both methods available to you to choose from depending on your needs.
- Restoring content to the same item (irrespective of structure):The final piece of the puzzle will be to allow you to restore content to the same item regardless of the difference in structure between the latest and historic versions. For us to achieve this, additional steps will need to be undertaken by you, in the form of field mapping, to prevent any content loss during the restoration. This method means you’ll have the ability and the confidence to restore old content even when there may have been changes to templates and/or structure over an item’s lifecycle.
During the development of these features, we’ll make sure there is ample opportunity to get involved and provide feedback.
Please reach out with any questions or feedback you may have at this stage. Thank you for your patience.
Rebecca Brown
Agree! Please prioritise this fix
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Greg Mackay
First request was made back in 2018! When is this happening?
David Campbell
planned
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Jen Grisham
Hi there, my team is new to GatherContent and this feature is essential for a project we're working on. I can't tell if there's been any movement since November 2021, but if not, it would be huge for us. Thanks.
James Peacock
open
Jill Evans
Yes!!! Please, please, please do this!
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Benjamin Hawkyard
planned
Hey folks,
Good news! We're currently planning out the ability to restore a revision 💫
I'll keep you updated on our progress, and I'll be reaching out to a few of you to talk about how we can make this feature as seamless as possible.
Thanks,
Ben
Stuart Peskett
I'm staggered that you can see older/revised versions but can't quickly select them. One of our writers has completely rewritten a story I spent a long time editing, so I'll now have to edit it for the second time…
Ben Watson
It’s crucial that we can accept/reject individual changes. If this is to compete with Word this feature is needed.
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