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.
- Activating the Page settings history panel
- Understanding Page setting events
- Restoring a Page
- History and the retention period
Activating the Page settings history panel
To access Page Settings History, select Page Settings History... from the page dropdown.
Then, you'll see the Page Settings History Panel appear on the right side.
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
System summary
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
Ordering Views
Removing 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:
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:
You can display the "Before Changes" and "With Changes" option to review more details:
More options
When selecting the more options dropdown , 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...
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 , select Edit Name and Description of Changes.
Then, name the settings change and describe the changes in detail below.
After saving, you'll see your summary above the system summary in the Page settings history panel.
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 , select Hide system summary of changes.
Then, you'll see only the name and description that you have added.
You can hide as many sections as you would like to view a smaller scale snapshot of the history.
Collapse All and Expand All
By selecting Collapse All or Expand All, you have the ability to hide all monthly groupings.
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 , select Save Page as....
Then, add the Page details and select Create Page.
From there, you'll see the Page you just created based on the Page settings history snapshot.
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 .
After you have restored your Page, you'll see the restore in your Page settings history panel with a Restored badge next to it , 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
.
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.
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.
For more information about security, the retention period, and how to access archived event data, see retention period details here.