Advanced saving and undoing options in Experience Manager
You can save and undo only changes to the contents of individual Components, or only changes to the layout or appearance of the page.
Individual Components
If you changed several individual Components, you may wish to undo changes to one of these Components but keep the changes to the others. To do so, select the top left border button of that Component and select Cancel Editing in the dialog that opens. This discards all changes made to the contents of that one Component since you last clicked Finish Editing. All other changes to the webpage remain unaffected.
Conversely, you can already put your changes to one Component on the staging website while keeping other changes available to you only. To do so, select the top left border button of that Component and select Finish Editing in the dialog that opens. This puts the changes you made to the contents of that one Component on the staging website. All other changes to the webpage remain unavailable to visitors of the staging site.
Note that both these options pertain only to the contents of the Component. The appearance and behavior of the Component remain unaffected.
The page without its Components
Alternatively, you may have made one or more of the following types of changes to the webpage:
- You may have moved Components around on the page.
- You may have changed the appearance and behavior of the page outside its Components: the banner, footer and so on.
- You may have added Components to the page.
- You may have removed Components from the page.
- You may have changed the appearance and behavior of the Components on the page.
You may wish to undo these types of changes, but keep the changes you made to the contents of the Components. To do so, select the top left border button on the border of the page itself (the outermost border on the page) and select Cancel Editing in the dialog that opens. This discards all changes of the types listed above that you made since you last clicked Finish Editing. All other changes to the webpage remain unaffected.
Conversely, you can put only these kinds of changes on the staging website, but keep the changes to the Components' contents available to you only. To do so, select the top left border button on the page border and select Finish Editing in the dialog that opens. This puts the types of changes listed above on the staging website, while keeping all other changes to the webpage unavailable to visitors of the staging site.