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When editing a content item, you can undo actions using the Undo functionality. However, once you have saved a content item, undoing specific editing actions is no longer possible. In cases where you need to revert a content item to a state in the past, use the XperienCentral revisions functionality. In XperienCentral, a revision is a copy of the state of a content item at a particular date and time in the past. When you restore an earlier revision of a content item, the following properties are resetrestored:

• The full content (rich text, content elements, modular content, layouts and
• The structure of the content item structure)
• The title of the content item

Two crucial properties of the restored content item, however, are not retained from the earlier restored revision: the publication state and workflow status. These two properties of a restored revision are always inherited from the latest revision before it was restored. The most important reason for this is to prevent an unpublished/inactive content item from becoming published/active as a result of the restore action.its publication state and its workflow status. If needed, you can revert a content item to a state in the past in order to begin anew from a specific point.

The following actions trigger the creation of a new revision of a content item in XperienCentral:

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1. Navigate to the content item you want to revert to a previous revision.
2. Open the Properties widget.
3. Click [Edit].
4. Click the Revisions tab:
   
   
   
   
   The Revisions tab opens. It shows a list containing the last x number of revisions for the current content item. The revisions are ordered from top to bottom with the newest revision appearing at the top. The numbering is consecutive beginning at 1. As a result of cleanup actions in your deployment, the revision number appearing at the bottom will not always be 1. For example, you could see in the table revisions 26-51 which means that the first 25 revisions have been deleted and you can only choose to revert to a revision between 26 and 51.  The revisions table shows the following properties for each revision:
   

   
   

   Property	Description
   Revision	The content item revision number.
   Title	The title the revision had when it was created.
   Editor	The editor responsible for creating the revision.
   Created	The date and time that the revision was created.
   Publication status	The publication status the revision had when it was created ("active" or "inactive").
   Workflow state	The workflow state the revision had when it was created.
   Restore	Restores the content item to the revision you select.

   
   
   The following shows an example of a content item with 7 revisions:
   
   
   
   
   
   

5. To preview a revision, click the revision number. For example:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   The revision you selected appears in the Workspace. When you preview a revision, you are seeing the exact state the content was in at the time the revision was saved.
   
   

6. If this is the revision you want to revert to, navigate back to the Revisions tab in the Properties widget and click [Restore] in the far right column for that revision. When a revision is restored, the content item is essentially reset to a previous state excepting its workflow status and publication state.

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XperienCentral Revision Settings

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