Rollback to previous page

To provide an extra degree of safety in publishing, Contribute enables you to use the page Rollback feature to undo any page you publish.

Note: The Rollback feature is not available if your website administrator has disabled it.

You can use the Rollback feature to revert to a previous version of any published page. You do not have to roll back to the last published version; you can select any version that Contribute has saved as a rollback file.

When you roll back to a previous version of a page, Contribute reverts to the previous text
contained in the version of the page you select. However, any assets imported into the page may or may not be recovered. For example, if you update an image file outside of Contribute, then replace the original image with another image using the same filename, Contribute cannot roll back to the previous version of the image.

To roll back to a previous version of a page or asset:

1. Browse to the page that you want to roll back.
2. Select File > Roll Back to Previous Version.
3. Select a previous version of the published page from the list of available pages.
• Note: The number of listings on the previously published pages displays is determined by the site administrators. Most administrators will have no reason to vary from the default of 3 previous rollback versions.
4. View the rollback page in the Preview panel
5. If the page you selected is the one you want to publish, click the Roll Back button. If the page is not the one you want to publish, select another page from the list, then click Roll Back.

Contribute replaces the currently published version of the page with the previously published version that you selected. The version you selected becomes the current version on the website.

Note: Contribute does not manage assets outside of the web pages it creates. Contribute does, however, maintain the older version of files if you use Contribute to edit the files in an external application. Contribute considers images, Microsoft Word documents, and other content that you edit in external applications as assets. You can roll back assets that you’ve edited through Contribute the same way that you roll back pages.