Thursday, October 29, 2009

Publishing Sites and Version History

One of the users at the company where I work accidently published a version of her page that she actually wanted to hold off on for a week or so. She figured that she would simply revert back to a previously published version of the page and then she could take her time rolling that page out. However, when she reverted back to a previous version, she discovered that the reverted page looked exactly like the new page that she did not want to publish. The reason? Because the changes she made involved deleting and adding web parts to the page and no actual page content changes occured.

Unfortunately, SharePoint publishing page versions do not keep track of new or deleted web parts. If you add or delete web parts, those changes will be pervasive throughout the versions once that page is published.

While there was nothing that could be done about the web parts that were deleted, she chose to close the web parts she had created until she wanted them to display.

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