Revert to last published state - "unpublished changes in editor"
Posted Dec 02, 2019
As with most people, testing layouts in Dashboard is very much trial and error, but the current version doesn't allow you "revert to last published state" and the unpublished changes in editor message is permanently pinned to the top.
There doesn't appear to be a way of reverting to last published state, and hiting edit takes you back to the edited test version.
This needs to be a feature that's possible for the Explore app to be useful.
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Jennifer Landry
I agree with the above, this is extremely frustrating. It's been over a year. Any update on this feature? I waste more time trying to "fix" a change I made, that didn't work as intended. Please move this feature to the top of your Product Roadmap... If there is a "workaround", I would appreciate if someone could share. TIA!
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Zendesk automation/integration notifier
The lack of this is causing us lots of frustration and wasted work.
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Paul Seifert
Please add this feature.
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Madeleine Cordrey-Jones
My colleagues built a report and I had a play around in it just seeing what Explore could do. I didn't save my changes. Little did I know they were auto-saving. Now that I actually need to edit the report I'm unable to because every time I try to it says there are unpublished changes in the editor and I don't want to publish whatever I mucked around with when I was just testing functionality.
Agree with what someone argued above that this seems more like a bug than a feature request.
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Owen Greenberg
+1. Undo broke my filter boxes to somehow render as entirely transparent and I can't just discard my changes... now I have to throw out the filters I put in and put them back one by one from scratch. I was very surprised to find that there was no "discard changes" or "close without saving" option!
I also want to point out that this is inconsistent with query behavior: if you exit out from the query editor without saving, it asks you if you want to discard your changes or save. If you exit out from a dashboard, it keeps all unpublished changes without user input.
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Ashwin Purohit
Please add this feature. I rearranged the widgets and now have to spend hours manually recentering things because there's no simple "discard" feature.
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Sumaiya Afzal
Please add this feature ASAP! Not my area of expertise, so sorry if this is a stupid question. But since you already have a copy of the previously 'Published' version why can't you load that version into the editor when someone clicks a 'Discard' or 'Revert' button?
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Lohith S
Undo is a Must especially when you give an option of Automatic Re-Organize, which screws the widgets. All the 30+ widgets are now screwed when I click Edit on one of the dashboards.
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Anuar Lázaro
Totally onboard with this proposal!!
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Daniel James
Just +1'ing here, ruined hours of work after giving the "automatic re-organizing" button a try.
And +1, that being reminded that my edits are unpublished just throws salt in the wound. I would argue they are very published.
Would love to hear there's been an update and I just don't know where to find it.
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