Anyone else have the new Version History?

Question

I've gone to check the version history of a page in Confluence, compare content etc, only to be confronted with another UI for dummies. Version history is no longer formatted in a nice table, there are additional clicks to enable Compare, and the panel cannot be maximised. There is also no legend, I can't see a colour for formatting changes. Although I can see the benefit in seeing the changes on-screen, this is another piece of unwanted fluff. There are so many bugs, did this really need to be done? Adding additional clicks every day is killing my productivity. The separate menu for attachments is so NOOB and floats in the way.

The one good thing is the author's name is mentioned. We have multiple people with the same initials so this is ok, but all in all, very hard to read.

What do you think? Can I revert this?

Shelley Duncan · Answer

Thanks @Kris Klima _K15t_ . I still liked the delineation between formatting vs text changes, and I can't see that now. The layout of the previous version history table was far superior. I cannot easily see how to compare version x to y, then click next, next to compare to the subsequent versions, it seems to be a lot more clicking in and out of view, it's non-intuitive. The side panel of changes makes it a better 'diff' experience.

Having a table with author in one column, version number in one column, date in another was for more intuitive. It would be better if the side panel could be maximised to make take up top or bottom off of screen, and laid out in the table format that is easy to read. Sorry, I'm not a fan at all, it's just more fluff when there are serious issues that need to be fixed. I'm currently having to log non responsive pages, broken links, inability to link to existing attachments without removing and reattaching them. If I could revert right now, I would.

Barbara Szczesniak · Answer

This feature just showed up in my instance today, so thank you for linking to your guide @Kris Klima _K15t_

Kris Klima _K15t_ · Answer

Hello @Shelley Duncan

You can see the colorcoded differences.

I actually wrote a little 'guide' for our Confluence news blog.

In short:

* Click Compare versions.
* Click a ... menu on a specific version, then click Compare.
* Select another version.
* Click Compare versions (on the compare panel, at the bottom).
* The main window will show the diffs.

(in the edit mode, you can go to three button (more actions) menu, and select View Changes - it displays colorcoded changes since the last published version.