Discard unpublished changes

[Kerstin Paulus]

Hello, on a confluence page I want to discard changes I did a while ago, in order for them to not overwrite the updates others did in the meanwhile. How can I do that? Many thanks in advance, Kerstin  

[Kristian Klima · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kerstin Paulus and welcome,

Open the page in the Edit mode, click the ... menu, click Revert to Previous version.

Review the changes and click Revert page.

[Kerstin Paulus]

Thank you!

[Kristian Klima]

You're welcome!

[car6lis]

Hello @Kristian Klima

Thank you for the answer!

May I give a suggestion? Maybe it was just me, but the text "Revert to previous version" was a little bit misleading (and that's why I had to do a quick search and found this post).

Maybe if the description of that button had "discard" somewhere it would be more straightforward, like "Discard current changes", because I wasn't sure if it was really reverting to the previous version.

E.g. I started doing changes on v2 (my changes would be v3) and I thought it would revert to v1, when in fact it discards the changes and stay on v2.

Once again, if you click on the option then you see that it will discard the changes, but I believe it would be clearer if you could understand that from the description of the button itself.

Best regards

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @car6lis 

I agree it is confusing - but as I'm not working for Atlassian, I can only suggest that you log a suggestion with Atlassian.

(I'm one of those Community Leaders who's not an employee :) )

[car6lis]

Hello again!

Sorry but couldn't reply earlier.

In fact this is indeed a feature/suggestion highly discussed since 2017 - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-45721

Not sure if it will turn into reality someday but I really hope so :)

[Gordana]

Confusion is because Collaborative editing is enabled. In this mode it is not clear if I am discarding only my changes or also other people changes. @Kristian Klima could you please help finding out why Discard is not an option anymore? I only want to Discard my changes not to go to previous version of the published document.

[Kristian Klima]

Hi @Gordana and welcome to the Community,

Isn't 'Collaborative editing' a Datacenter/Server thing? In its classic form that can be turned on/off in Confluence settings.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/collaborative-editing-858771779.html - it's only mentioned on the DC docs.

On the other hand, the API docs does mention the option - https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/collaborative-editing/

The closest Cloud feature is Live Docs (Live Editing). Which I do have enabled on our site but turned off in all spaces as it clashes with many of our apps.

Having said that... a couple of days ago, I was working on the article at the same time as my team member. They wanted to abandon their changes and reverted to the last saved version. Hence erasing any edits that I have made....