Hello Katherine,
Intrigued by your request I have made a workaround using Velocity in order to avoid this to happen. We will need to modify the viewpreviousversion.vm from <confluence-install>/confluence/pages/ you can save a copy and edit all the content to the code below. Please change the custom message on the last lines accordingly to your needs as well. :)
<html>
<head>
<title>$action.getText("title.view.previous.versions") - $!page.title</title>
</head>
#applyDecorator("root")
#decoratorParam("helper" $action.helper)
#decoratorParam("mode" "view-information")
#decoratorParam("calendar-width" "200px")
#decoratorParam("context" "$action.page.type")
## PERMISSION TO CHECK IF USER IS ANONYMOUS, IF ANONYMOUS THERE IS NO HISTORY FOR IT :)
#if ($action.remoteUser != $null)
#requireResource("confluence.web.resources:page-history")
<form name="diff" method="GET" action="diffpagesbyversion.action">
<input type="submit" value="$action.getText('compare.selected')">
<input type="hidden" name="pageId" value="$action.pageId">
<style>
.tableview td {white-space:nowrap; vertical-align:top;}
</style>
<table id="page-history-container" width="100%" cellspacing="0" class="tableview">
<tr>
<th>&nbsp;</th>
<th>$action.getText("heading.version.number")</th>
<th>$action.getText("heading.version.date")</th>
<th>$action.getText("heading.comment")</th>
#if( $action.isRevertPermitted())
<th>$action.getText("heading.operations")</th>
#end
</tr>
<tr id="rowForVersion$page.version">
<td width="%1"><input type="checkbox" name="selectedPageVersions" value="$page.version" #if ($action.isSelectedVersion($page.version)) checked #end></td>
<td align="left">
<strong>
<a href="viewpage.action?pageId=$page.id">$action.getText("current.version")</a>
(v. $page.version)
</strong>
</td>
<td align="middle">
<strong>
$dateFormatter.formatDateTime($page.lastModificationDate)
</strong>
</td>
<td style="white-space:normal;">
<strong>#usernameLink ($page.lastModifierName)</strong>#if ($page.versionCommentAvailable):
<br><span class="change-comment">$page.renderedVersionComment</span>#end ## Only put in a break if there's a comment
</td>
#if( $action.isRevertPermitted())
<td>&nbsp;</td>
#end
</tr>
#if( $previousVersions )
#foreach( $oldPage in $previousVersions )
<tr id="rowForVersion$oldPage.version">
<td width="%1"><input type="checkbox" name="selectedPageVersions" value="$oldPage.version" #if ($action.isSelectedVersion($oldPage.version)) checked #end></td>
<td align="left">
<a href="viewpage.action?pageId=${oldPage.id}">v. $oldPage.version</a>
</td>
<td align="middle">
$dateFormatter.formatDateTime( $oldPage.lastModificationDate )
</td>
<td style="white-space:normal;">
<strong>#usernameLink ($oldPage.lastModifierName)</strong>#if ($oldPage.versionCommentAvailable):
<br><span class="change-comment">($oldPage.renderedVersionComment)</span>#end ## Only put in a break if there's a comment
</td>
#if( $action.isRevertPermitted())
<td align="middle">
#if ($oldPage.version>0)
<a href="revertpagebacktoversion.action?pageId=$page.id&version=${oldPage.version}">$action.getText("restore.this.version")</a>
#end
</td>
#end
</tr>
#end
#end
</table>
</form>
<p><a href="${req.contextPath}/pages/viewinfo.action?pageId=${page.id}">$action.getText('return.to.page.info')</a></p>
#else
## CUSTOM MESSAGE TO ANONYMOUS USER
<ul>Unfortunately as Anonymous you lack permission to use the page History, for further information please contact Confluence Administrators</ul>
#end
#end
</html>
Hope this helps you get on the right track. If you need any tweak let me know!
Cheers,
Guilherme
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