Going back

What the history keeps

Every publication archives the version it replaces. A page’s history therefore lists its previous ONLINE states, and not the steps of your draft: the draft saves itself as you type and sets no markers at all. A page published only once has an empty history, quite simply because it has not replaced anything yet.

Restoring writes into the draft

Restoring puts nothing back online. The chosen version comes back into your draft, you read it over, then you publish if it suits you. It is the rule of the whole editor: restoring prepares, publishing decides.

• The site that is online does not change until you have published.
• The draft in progress is replaced, and lost: the confirmation says so beforehand.
• So you can restore just to look, then leave again without publishing.

Undoing an action, not a version

To take back what you have just done, the history is not what you need: the editor’s toolbar undoes and redoes your actions, and a deleted block offers « Annuler » (Undo) for a few seconds before disappearing. The history answers the other question, the one that comes a day later: what did this page look like before last week’s overhaul.