Return to previous versions of Rise lessons after edits have been made

Hi Amy, 

Thanks for reaching out! Sorry, you can't revert to a version you've already published to make any changes or edit that version. The version that is saved to Review is only for sharing and getting feedback.

If we make any changes to this that help, we'll let you know!

Yes out team is trying to figure out how to manage all of these files and versions of files.  Without being able to download an actual source file for RISE this is incredibly awkward and frustrating

I'm adding a vote for this feature request on behalf of the Development team at my company too. I'm going to start copying blocks of text to a document before I change/replace them -- but this is like re-creating a storyboard document and doubles the work "just in case".

My goodness. Three years for an obvious feature that should have been baked in from the start? Come on, let's get this feature added ASAP. We're a state agency and keeping .zip files of each version isn't practical (we lack cloud storage options).

I would like to add my vote for a versioning system. In the meantime, how about an optional prompt you can choose to turn on "Are you sure you want to delete this block?"  

Please add a vote for version control for us as well. We sometimes need to go back to previous versions and currently there is no way. Jennifer's suggestion of being able to create subfolders is much needed as well.

Thanks!

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 not words,

Julie

We definitely need this too.

What if Rise suddenly erases edits and brings back an old version of your course?!!! I've lost a day's worth of work!

We've had this happened quite a few times too - have lost hours / days of work. It's really frustrating when this happens.

Hi everyone, 
I can't express how useful it would be to be able to see previous versions, where changes are highlighted and where roll-back would be possible.

It would be a brilliant functionality - much like the version change history in Google Docs.

I would like to add my vote for a versioning system. We really need this!

Any update on the version control?  I've just learned the hard way?

I just lost about 2 hours of work by clicking a wrong button. I too would very much like to vote for version control! 

I would like to vote for versioning to from our company as well, Consortium Beroepsonderwijs.

Can I add my vote for the versioning function and an undo function! They would be incredibly helpful :)

Hi All,

Hope you're doing well & safe?

My team and I are experiencing a problem with some of the translations.

I understand that we could only import .xlf file for translations onto the original file that we had chosen to export the .xlf file from.

Currently, by chance, the original file that was used to import the translated .xlf file got revised and now we are unable to import any other languages.

Could someone please advise if there is a way for us to resolve this?

I tried researching on the internet; however, there doesn't seem to be much help on replacing content in .xlf file to make it compatible with a different copy of the working file.

I was hoping that we could probably be able to solve this if there was an option to revert to the previous version (as I presume there are some unique identifiers that are aligned with that version)

Thanks for your attention.

Prabhath

Bangalore, India

Prabath:

Hello!

Personally, I found that copy-pasting the contents of the Rise module to Word manually, getting that translated, and then copy-pasting the translation into a copy of the training works better than the .xlf file for this.

Some translation software, such as Trados, do not deal well with that .xlf file. 

Basically, what I understand the problem to be is that translation software is pretty good at reading simple HTML files and stuff like that, but a Rise or Storyline project has very dynamic content generated through functions and stuff like that, so the contents are not as readily available as the contents of an HTML file. 

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for your suggestion...

Though, I was hoping Articulate would enable an option to revert to a chosen version or at least ease the process of converting .xlf files from different versions..

Currently, due to the limitations, we might end up with lots of rework/wait time.

Why can't it be simplified like how it's done in Storyline 360?

If I must compare Rise 360 with Storyline 360, the latter is a walk in the park kind of easy to work with while exporting/importing translation files..

Hope someone from Articulate could help us get this reviewed and implement a change that would benefit many users...

Moreover, with the current process, no matter how much control we try to implement, such problems are bound to recur..

I wonder why this problem isn't addressed in so many years...

Also, adding on, it would be great if Articulate could enable some options to set cue points/highlight the working file in a different colour to reduce recurrences of such problems...

In the current situation, we were able to recover the file (it seems the developer had deleted the working file due to a misunderstanding); however, the features, problems that I observed are very real and if it is not just me, a lot of others would benefit.....

Definitely a feature that would help avoid errors with editing / deleting content.  Can you tell us when this will be implemented. This thread has been ongoing for 4 years!

This is really frustrating. I constantly get emails about new features for Storyline (which I can't even use because I'm on a Mac) but you still don't have version control on your roadmap? I've read several threads now where folks are asking for this. Does your team actually take action on this feedback?

Definitely would appreciate versioning or some sort of access to the historic changes.  Even undo would be good!  I love this software and this is a serious flaw.