discard unsaved changes?

Question

Hey there,

how to discard unsaved changes in confluence cloud?
Alt Text on "Close Button" tells me "keep draft or discard changes" - but when I click on close it will always keep the changes ... never asking me if I want to discard them?

any idea on that?

thx

Andreas Schnederle-Wagner

AhmadDanial · Answer

Hi, Andreas.

Understood. In this case, I believe that @Stephen Sifers has provided an extensive explanation on the best way to handle the scenario. Feel free to share any questions as you give the suggestions a shot. Thanks.

Stephen Sifers · Answer

Hello again Andreas,

Drafts are shared with others who have access to edit the page. Meaning, if you are editing the page and someone else adds additional information to the page, you are now both sharing a draft.

Another solution for your published page would be to set page restrictions to others can’t see your page until you have finished all edits (saving the page after editing instead of using the draft). Once the page is ready, remove the page level restrictions to others may see this page. You can find more about Page Restrictions and how this can work to your advantage.

There are some best practices when using drafts and ensuring you have multiple points of history. Here are some of the best practices:

We recommend only keeping your work as a draft when it's in a very early stage. This is because changes can't be tracked in a draft, and you can't roll back to previous editing sessions - both of which you can do for published pages.

Instead, it's recommended you publish your page even while it's in mid-work, and do one of the following:

* Use a status macro to mark your page work-in-progress: You can also change this to say under review, done, needs revising, looking for feedback, or any other step of your workflow.
* Move your pages as you work: If you've got an external facing site, or if your team is writing something like policies for the rest of your organisation, you can work on them in your team space, and then move them to an external facing space once they're done. Alternatively, you can work on something in your personal space, and then once it's been polished, move it to the official space that it needs to be under.
* Lock down pages until ready: Working on something that you don't want everyone to know about until it's ready? Lock down your page while you work on it, and only change the page restrictions once it's ready to go public.

Source document: Create, edit, and publish

There are add-ons available which may assist with your versions without publication. You can find more within the Atlassian Marketplace.

As far as a feature request goes, there is a feature request already present to allow you to discard your own changes. For cloud: CONFCLOUD-45721 and for server: CONFSERVER-45321. We would suggest you vote and watch these feature requests to receive updates as they progress.

Enjoy the snow! It’s just cold over here in Texas with clear skies.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

Andreas Schnederle-Wagner · Answer

Hey Ahmad,

I guess this will also discard unpublished changes made by other contributors of this Page, right?
I want only to discard the changes I made ... :-/

thx
Andreas