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Types of Changes that Create a new Confluence Page Version

Elizabeth Bowen

What kinds of changes create a new, tracked version of a Confluence page?

For instance, I know that checking a checkbox will create a new version (v.2). Unchecking the same checkbox will create another version (v.3).

However, changing the restrictions to a page does not version it, nor is there a record of restrictions made to a page or WHO made them.

Thanks!

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Rodrigo Girardi Adami

Hi Elizabeth,

It seems we don't have a documentation for the page version triggering indeed. I've created a task in jira.atlassian.comfor this documentation to be made and state exactly what creates a new page version in confluence: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33966

I recommend to vote, comment there and also ask your colleagues to vote and increase the popularity of the request.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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Rodrigo Girardi Adami

Hi Elizabeth,

As far as I know, only page modifications on it's content and title will create a new page version. Changing the page from one place to another or modifying the restrictions would not create a new page version.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

Elizabeth Bowen

So we could build a list of 'Page Modifications that Create a New Page Version' to include:

Text Change (addition/deletion)
Text Format Change
Addition/Deletion of Macro
Change of options on existing macro(?)
Addition/deletion/modification of section(s) (?)
Checkbox check/uncheck
Attachment added/deleted/versioned
New label(?)
Addition of new page listing in index (using the Page Properties Report macro) (?)

Page modifications that would NOT create a version:

Addition/deletion/modification of page restrictions
Page movement
Page copying (no change on the original page)
Page liking (?)
Page comments (?)

Other actions that have no impact on versioning:

Page shares
Page views/hits
Page watches
Page favorites

Items with (?) are my questions to you. Also, did I miss anything?

Rodrigo Girardi Adami

Hi Elizabeth,

I believe your list is very good however what I know is that only when you click on edit the page and change something is that a new version is created.

Adding comments, linking, labelling a page, checkbox checks and so on should not create a new version of the page.

You can try to perform this task to double check my assumptions, however I'm almost sure this is the way it works

Cheers,

Rodrigo

Elizabeth Bowen

Here is an example of checkbox checking that does version the page:

The above is the page with the checkboxes. Simplly three checkboxes with text next to them (no @ mentions).

Here is the page history as I checked and unchecked these boxes:

As for the other items I have marked with ?s, are they accurate as well?

Rodrigo Girardi Adami

Hi Elizabeth,

I recommend to vote, comment there and also ask your colleagues to vote and increase the popularity of the request.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

Elizabeth Bowen

Thank you. I'll expect attribution as well.

Rodrigo Girardi Adami

You are welcome. Any further comment you can post directly in the task report to centralize the information there.

Feel free to close this question as answered if this helped you

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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