Ektron CMS400.NET User Manual

Viewing and Restoring Previous Content
Viewing and Restoring Previous
Content
NOTE
NOTE
Accessing Content History
Past versions of published content are available unless your
system administrator purged them. Your ability to view a content
item’s history is determined by your user privileges.
After viewing a previous versions of content, you can replace the
current version with any previous version.
This section explains how to view and possibly restore older versions of content.
To see a change-by-change comparison of two content items, use the View
Content Difference feature, explained in ”Comparing Versions of Content” on
page 98.
The Purge History feature deletes historical versions of content according to userdefined
criteria. Therefore, some previous versions may be unavailable. See Also:
Ektron CMS400.NET Administrator manual > “Managing Content Folders” >
“Folder Properties” >”Purge History”
The View and Restore features are explained through the following
subtopics.
• ”Accessing Content History” on page 108
• ”The Content History Window” on page 109
• ”Restoring a Previous Version” on page 111
• ”Comparing Historical Versions” on page 112
• ”Removing Applied XSLT” on page 112
By default, all users can view the history of Ektron CMS400.NET
content. You can access content history from two places:
• The Workarea’s View Content page
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