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Working with Page Settings History

Page Settings History allows users to view detailed information related to each iteration (e.g. saved changes) to a Page’s design and settings, as well as the ability to restore previously saved iterations of a Page.

Page Settings History

Activating the Page settings history panel

To access Page Settings History, select Page Settings History... from the page dropdown.

Page Settings History

Then, you'll see the Page Settings History Panel appear on the right side.

Page Settings History

Note:

Events listed in the Page Settings History will only be available from when this feature was introduced. Any Page Setting type events before this feature was introduced will be in event log entries within your event retention period.

Understanding Page setting events

Each time the Page has been saved, there will be a system summary along with other important information about each save:

  • The Date the Page was updated and saved
  • The Person who saved the Page with updates
  • The system summary of Page settings changes

Page Settings History

System summary

Page Settings History

The system summary is a list of events that occurred before saving the Page. Each event is formatted in a bullet-point list. These events are similar to the events you see in event log entries for Page setting events, but they are organized in this view to easily digest.

System Summary of Page View Changes

When adding, ordering, removing and renaming Page Views, the System Summary will display these changes as follow:

Adding Views

Adding Views

Ordering Views

Ordering Views

Removing Views

Removing Views

Renaming Views

Renaming Views

System Summary of Filter Panel Widget Filter Changes

When Filter Panel Widget Checkbox Filters are updated while saving a Page, they will be reflected in the System Summary as follows:

Filter Panel Widgets

System Summary of Page Filter Changes

When Page Filters are updated while saving a Page, they will be reflected in the System Summary as follows:

Page Filters

You can display the "Before Changes" and "With Changes" option to review more details:

Page Filters

More options

When selecting the more options dropdown More Options, you have the ability to:

  • Edit a Name and Description of Changes...
  • Hide the System Summary of changes
  • Save Page as...
  • Delete Name and Description of Changes...

More Options

Edit a Name and Description of changes

This option allows you to add a more human-friendly, digestible summary of the changes. From More Options More Options, select Edit Name and Description of Changes.

Add Name and Description

Then, name the settings change and describe the changes in detail below.

Add Name and Description

After saving, you'll see your summary above the system summary in the Page settings history panel.

Add Name and Description

Hiding the system summary of changes

This option allows you to hide the system summary of changes. This can be useful when you've added your own description, or if you are scrolling through a longer list of detailed changes and/or many saves.

From More Options More Options, select Hide system summary of changes.

Hide System Summary

Then, you'll see only the name and description that you have added.

Hide System Summary

You can hide as many sections as you would like to view a smaller scale snapshot of the history.

Hide System Summary

Collapse All and Expand All

By selecting Collapse All or Expand All, you have the ability to hide all monthly groupings.

Callapse All and Expand All

Save Page as...

This option allows you to Save Page as... from any of the any of the Page settings history options available. This can be useful when you would like to create a new Page based on a snapshot from the Page's history.

From More Options More Options, select Save Page as....

Save Page As

Then, add the Page details and select Create Page.

Save Page As

From there, you'll see the Page you just created based on the Page settings history snapshot.

Save Page As

Restoring a Page

To restore based on a point in time in your Page settings history, select the section you would like to restore, then select Restore Restore button.

Restore Page

After you have restored your Page, you'll see the restore in your Page settings history panel with a Restored badge next to it Restored badge, and have the same options in the panel as you did before you restored. From here, you can restore from another point in history, or update with all of the options available through More options More Options.

Restore Page

History and the retention period

Everything that happens in Flow Production Tracking creates a Flow Production Tracking event, and all the events are logged. Page settings history events are a type of event logged in Flow Production Tracking. These events are organized in the Page settings history panel, and also filterable through an event log entries Page.

The retention period for events is controllable by an Admin through the Advanced section in Site preferences.

Event Log Retention Period

The retention period for your site will be mentioned at the top of the Page settings history panel. If you are not seeing events before a certain period in the Page settings history, it's likely these events occured outside of the retention period.

Event Log Retention Period

For more information about security, the retention period, and how to access archived event data, see retention period details here.

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