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How do i now discard my changes without saving as a draft?

David_b6gm45

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Pawel Furmanowski

Hi David.

There's no way to discard unpublished changes at the moment.
The thing I do is to publish your changes and then revert to the previous version ( three dots --> History --> Restore the previous one).

I hope it will work for you as well.

Cheers,

Pawel

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Rodney Hughes

Just close the editing window without saving

that returns you to view mode

next time you open it in edit mode it will notify you there is a draft and whether you want to resume editing or discard

David_b6gm45

I'm running Confluence Cloud and the only buttons are Update (publish) and Save & Close (draft). There is no simple close, which just returns to view mode, without saving.

Ana Retamal

Hi David, currently it's not possible to discard changes in a draft, as they're autosaved. We have already a feature request for that and you can find it at CONFCLOUD-45721. You can vote for it to increase it's popularity and watch it to receive further updates, you can also add your thoughts in a comment.

Let me know if you have any questions Otherwise, you can accept the answer as valid.

David_b6gm45

Does this include the draft itself, once saved, when the document has been previosly published?

philoye

Hi David, you are correct, the button reads "Save and close", which has the described behaviour: it preserves the draft and returns to view mode without updating the epage.

philoye

A workaround is to publish the page and then revert to the previous version in Page History.

Pawel Furmanowski

Hi David.

There's no way to discard unpublished changes at the moment.
The thing I do is to publish your changes and then revert to the previous version ( three dots --> History --> Restore the previous one).

I hope it will work for you as well.

Cheers,

Pawel

Not getting a prompt anymore.

Let me get this straight. The official Atlassian response is to pollute your page's history just to discard changes you no longer want? Utterly disappointing.

Oh, and this is for noncollaborative editing. No one else has made any changes to the page. This is ridiculous.

Emily Chan

Hi everyone~

I thought it would be helpful to consolidate the answers to this question, and to provide additional clarification to the answers that had been given.

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As of Confluence Server 6.15, the way to discard your drafts without saving is to click on the triple ellipsis ( "..." ) at the bottom right of the editor (next to the "Publish" and "Close" buttons).

if the page has never been published, click the "Delete unpublished page" option
if the page has already been published at least once before, the option "Revert to last published version" appears instead. Click that.

Things to note:

if other people had also made unpublished changes on the same draft, then discarding the draft means that you will be discarding EVERYONE'S unpublished changes in the draft

you are informed who (other than yourself) had made unpublished changes int he draft, before you confirm to discard the draft
currently there is no way to tell exactly which edits were made by whom

changes in drafts aren't versioned (which means you can't see which particular edits were made at which point in time since the page was last published)

As of Confluence Cloud 1000.0.0-98902f4c0cc, the user experience is the same as Confluence Server 6.15.

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@Tom , the user experience is different for Confluence Server 6.6.5.

As you've said, when you've made any changes and click close, a dialog shows up and asks you whether you want to (1) keep the draft or (2) discard all changes (or everyone's changes, in the case of collaborative editing).

If you had closed the browser window, the system assumes you had chosen to keep the draft.

When the draft has been kept, and you yourself have not made any changes, the dialog will not appear when you close the editor.

If there has been changes to the draft, but none of these changes were made by you, then the dialog will not appear when you close the editor.

If you had made any changes to the draft (even a single extra space, a new line, or deleting and rewriting any word in the page), then the dialog will appear again.

Shanta Nathwani

I've read through all of the above. I'm running the cloud version.

I've made some changes that I want to discard.

I hit close and it says "Unpublished Changes" at the top of the page. The last update to the page was May 02, 2018.

I go to edit the page. I click on "Revert to last Published Page". The version it warns me about is the one that was published on March 27, 2018, not May 2, 2018 as I expect.

So, if I follow the instructions above, to clarify:

Publish my changes
Go in and edit the page and revert to the previously published page
I expect that the page should go back to the May 2, 2018 draft.

Before I proceed with this, because I don't want to lose the changes that the person made for the May 2, 2018 one, are we sure that if I follow this methodology, that after reverting my changes, this should return to the May 2, 2018 one, not the March 27, 2018 version?

Have I confused you enough yet?

Rodney Hughes

I have just tested what I think you are describing

A page with only one version dated 2014 - View mode is "clear"

I edited the page and closed without Publishing

View mode now shows "Unpublished changes" and of course the unpublished changes are not showing. Ellipsis Page History still shows only one version.

Now back in Edit mode I Publish the changes, Page History now shows two versions

If I Restore the previous version, View mode now shows the original 2014 version and Page History now has 3 versions, the latest showing with comment "Reverted from v1"

Then I decided to Restore version 2 - the one with the published changes I made today. Page History now shows 4 versions with the latest showing as "Reverted from v2"

ssanfelice

I'm sorry, but this really is ridiculous. I do appreciate the tip.

Brendan Lynch

Take a seemingly simple task and overengineer the logic out of it... "Undo" - simple...

Stephen French_ae72m0

Man this is complicated.

I also would like to discard my draft. I cannot figure out how to do it.

Jira engineers, please help!

Rodney Hughes

Have you checked out Emily Chan's instructions above dated 12th May 2019 ?

dan.hale

If I revert to the last published version it deletes any pending drafts owned by other people.

Dear Atlassian, you have a net worth of approximately 26 billion and have been developing your products for around 20 years. Can I please have a feature to discard my draft in Confluence, a proprietary product centred entirely around the editing and publishing of documents? Not everyone's drafts, just mine. Please.

If you need a hand implementing this you can take a look at your self-hosted confluence which gives the option to discard a draft when a user begins editing a page.

Please do not suggest I use script-runner or upvote a 5 year old feature request.

Thanks

Braden Wright

Imagine thinking this is an acceptable solution for a product centered around editing.

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