Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to modify a specific version’s content without affecting the content of other versions.
To manage content that applies to specific versions, you would need to maintain it in separate Confluence spaces. Or code names such as Apple’s “Mountain Lion”.But Confluence’s built-in functionality doesn’t really help you manage entire page collections that refer to the same version of content.įor technical documentation, a version defines content that belongs to a specific documentation set or product release, such as: In the real world, your product may have multiple versions – and as a result, so does your documentation. Real Documentation Projects Need Real Versioning On this page, you can compare versions, and restore or delete previous versions.Ītlassian describes entries in the page history as ‘versions’. However, I personally feel the term ‘revisions’ would be more accurate, because changes always apply to the current page only. You can access the history of a Confluence page from the Tools > Page History menu. Confluence’s built-in versioning functionality is a great way to track changes – but does it really help you manage multiple versions effectively?Īnd what does our Scroll Versions add-on bring to the table that default Confluence features cannot offer? Let’s find out.Īs with all high-quality enterprise wikis, Confluence tracks the history of changes to each page.
You'll see the page comparison view showing the differences between the selected versions.When using Atlassian Confluence collaboratively to write and manage documentation, you will soon find that your content refers to multiple product/documentation versions within one or several spaces. Choose the versions you want to compare by selecting the check boxes beside them.Choose View Changes beside the required version The page comparison view is displayed, showing the differences between the selected and previous versions.Choose > Page Information In the section titled 'Recent Changes' you'll see the most recent versions of the page, along with the date of their modification and the name of the modifying author.Using the page history view or the page information view, you can see the recent changes made to a page. Delete a specific versionĬhoose Delete next to a version in the page history, to remove that version. We'll warn you if there is an unpublished draft. If the page has an unpublished draft, the content of the draft will be lost when you restore a previous version. For example, if you restore version 39, Confluence will create a copy of version 39 and the copy will become the new, current version. All page history is retained restoring an older version creates a copy of that version.
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