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Content History

GrowthThis feature is available with a Growth plan. EnterpriseThis feature is available with an Enterprise plan. ProThis feature is available with a Strapi Cloud Pro plan. TeamThis feature is available with a Strapi Cloud Team plan.

The Content History feature, in the Content Manager, gives you the ability to browse and restore previous versions of documents created with the Content Manager.

Identity Card of the Feature

Plan: Growth or Enterprise plan, or Cloud Pro or Team plan.
Role & permission: None.
Activation: Available by default, if required plan.
Environment: Available in both Development & Production environment.

Accessing the Content History of a documentAccessing the Content History of a document

Usage

Path to use the feature: Content icon Content Manager
From the edit view of a content type: click More icon (top right corner) then ClockCounterClockwise icon Content History.

Browsing Content History

With Content History, you can browse your content through:

  • The main view on the left, which lists the fields and their content for the version selected in the sidebar on the right.
  • The sidebar on the right, which lists the total number of versions available, and for each version:
    • the date and time when the version was created,
    • the user who created it,
    • and whether its status is Draft, Modified, or Published (see Draft & Publish for more information about document statuses).
Accessing the Content History of a documentAccessing the Content History of a document
Note

The main view of Content History clearly states whether a field was inexistent, deleted, or renamed in other versions of the content-type. Fields that are unknown for the selected version will be displayed under an Unknown fields heading below the other fields.

Restoring a previous version

You can choose to restore a previous version of a document. When restoring a version, the content of this version will override the content of the current draft version. The document switches to the Modified status and you will then be able to publish the content whenever you want.

To restore a version:

  1. Browse the Content History and select a version via the sidebar on the right.
  2. Click the Restore button.
  3. In the Confirmation window, click Restore.
Note

If the Internationalization (i18n) feature is enabled for the content-type, restoring a version with a unique field (i.e. a field whose content is the same for all locales) will restore the content of this field for all locales.