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Working With Revisions

Simple stores multiple copies of each page in its database for later retrieval.  If a user should make a mistake when editing and not be able to reverse it (i.e. deleting a large block of text without having another copy available) the administrator can restore a previous version of the page, thereby recovering the data.

• Login to Simple.
• View your site as a visitor would and navigate to the page that was mistakenly updated.
• Click "Revisions" from the toolbar at the top of the page.
• You will see a list of previous versions of this page, the newest on the top of the list.
• To view the contents of any particular revision, click "View."
• If you would like to replace the current contents of the page with the data from that revision, click "Restore"
• If you would like to perminently delete any revision, click "Delete"

Keep in mind that when a page is deleted, its revisions will be deleted along with it.  It is advisible that you still make regular backups of your database instead of relying solely upon revisions.

(Note: For administrators who would like to save space in their database, there's a setting for the maximum number of revisions to store for any given page.  If you use this setting, you will only be able to retrieve that many revisions for a given page.  For example, if you set the maximum to 25, you will only be able to retrieve the last 25 versions of any given page.)