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Roll back to a previous version of a page

You can use the Rollback feature to revert to a previous version of any published page. You do not have to roll back to the last published version; you can select any version that Contribute has saved as a rollback file.

When you roll back to a previous version of a page, Contribute reverts to the previous text contained in the version of the page you select. However, any assets imported into the page may or may not be recovered. For example, suppose you update an image file outside of Contribute and then replace the original image with another image using the same filename. In this case, Contribute cannot roll back to the previous version of the image because Contribute does not manage assets outside the web pages it creates.

Contribute does, however, maintain the older version of an image if you use Contribute to edit the image in an external application. Contribute considers images, Microsoft Word documents, and other content that you edit in an external application as assets. You can roll back assets that you’ve edited through Contribute the same way that you roll back pages.

For example, suppose you roll back from version C of a page to version A, and you used Contribute to edit an image in version B. When you roll back to version A, you do not see the current version of the image. You need to also roll back the image, independently of the page rollback.

To provide an extra degree of safety in publishing, Contribute lets you undo any web page you publish and roll back to a previously published version of that web page.

Note: The Rollback feature is only available if your Contribute administrator enabled it. For more information, see your Contribute administrator or see Enable or disable rollbacks.

Browse to the page to roll back.
Select File > Actions > Roll Back to Previous Version.

The Roll Back Page dialog box appears.
Select a previous version of the published page from the list of available pages.

Note: The list of previously published pages shows a number of previous versions of the page, depending on your Contribute administrator’s setting.

Contribute displays the page in the Preview section.
If the page you selected is the one you want to publish, click the Roll Back button. If the page is not the one you want to publish, select another page from the list, and then click Roll Back.

Contribute replaces the currently published version of the page with the previously published version that you selected. The version you selected becomes the current version on the website.

Note: The page you replace with the selected rollback page appears in the Roll Back Page dialog box the next time you open the dialog box so you can roll back to that version if you need to.