Forum Discussion
Restore Rise course from version history in Review
Hi Articulate team,
I was wondering if Rise and Review can work together to create a sub-version history of your course? For example, after working on a Rise lesson you find you need to add content that was previously dropped, or start over from an older version... if you have 4 versions of an Articulate Rise course in Articulate Review, can you select an older version and restore it to Rise?
Hello everyone, 🎉
I'm happy to let you know we released a new update for Rise 360! This update adds the following feature:
- Save and restore your work with a click via an easy-to-access version list that captures manual saves and export events.
There's nothing to install for web apps. New features and fixes are immediately available. Let me know if you have any questions about this update.
I'm so disappointed [tears]. Articulate you should be embarrassed [beet red]. 3 years and you don't have version control in the Rise platform [OMG].
Here's our sad story [sniff]. We were breaking up a course into smaller RISE courses but did not back up the larger course before beginning. Mistakes happen. Thankfully, I recently published it so we can recreate it [sigh].Articulate: Please model after me and admit you made a grave mistake and tell us the timeline of when version control will be available in RISE. This is the only response I want from Articulate on this matter. I‘m quite sure my head will explode if you:
- Give me the spiel of software companies don't tell what and when they are rolling out. I think we all know version control is not innovative. So, no need to be secretive here. Most new users probably think it is already a feature because it is such a basic need [hopefully I’m preventing someone else’s mistake].
- Ask me to put this fundamental feature as a “suggestion” to your developers. Again 3 years and counting. This response insults me and I bet other users of your product. And it should be embarrassing to your company [tick tock].
- I appreciate the position that articulate staff moderating this community are in. But really, don't make them write a "cheery-thank you for the suggestion nonresponsive post" to me. It is mean to your staff and I feel like I'm "blaming the messenger" and possibly ruining their day.
We made this same mistake about 1 year ago. (See it’s not that hard). I really hope that if/when we make this mistake again (mistakes do happen), I will have version control and the software features that people normally expect with award-winning software.
Looking for action,
Julie
I agree with every word. This is basic.
Hi Learn.TMW! I think you have a great idea. Currently, Review will show you previous versions, but it won't recycle them back into Rise. Depending on the content, you should be able to copy text and even save images from the Review interface.
I'll pass this along to our team; keep your good ideas flowing here!
is this possible now?
Hi Jennifer,
It should be possible to retrieve your deleted course.
Whoever was the Course Owner of the deleted course, should go to their Rise dashboard and check their Deleted Courses folder.
Thank you Crystal, let me know if you put this on the roadmap. Desktop source files can be managed via SVN. But with Rise - we can't subversion. It would be great if that could be done in the cloud! (Basically your servers, because data doesn't live in the air... only on servers ;P)
Versioning ability would be a great addition, I would love to see this become an available feature!
Another person that really wished there was versioning on Rise. I accidentally deleted a section when I was changing one course into two. Big oops on my end but was really hoping there was another option than recreating the now missing content.
I second this suggestion.
Thanks for chiming in, Elizabeth!
Command + Z (Mac) and Control + Z (Windows) will undo text edits and text formatting, but it will not bring back a deleted block.
If you delete a block, you'll see an Undo button at the bottom of the screen for several seconds. If you no longer see that button, you'll want to recreate the block again.
So you only have a few seconds to restore a deleted block. Not quite sure of the logic on this one :(
I can't believe this feature isn't enabled already. It seems like such a basic thing. I was working on a course with a colleague (she's the author) and after having made some signficant content additions I went in the next day to find the entire section gone. I'm hoping my colleague for some reason cut / pasted the section so she could work on it offline while on vacation (she said she was going to be in a place without good internet) but I'm fearing the worst. I can't get a hold of her and I feel paralyzed with my inability to do anything. The first thing I looked for was a version history then thought maybe only authors can see / control this but after reading this thread my hopes are dashed.
We recently upgraded to Storyline 360 and I spent about 2 hours looking for version control options in Rise.
I thought I must be an idiot not being able to find it because it's an assumed feature. Honestly shocked that it's not there.
So add me to the version control bandwagon.
Adding my voice to this discussion, we need version control!!
