Ability to undo or discard changes for CMS editors
Clients often make mistakes when editing their website and the fact that they have to go back and completely redo what was there before seems unnecessary. I'm surprised this wasn't already on the wish list.
Also, my collaborators must have the possibility to suggest accepting their changes even if they have not the possibility to directly publish. Or I should have (as site admin) the possibility to see a list of suggestions and decide wether to apply them or not.
A client makes 5 small changes then realises the first was not a good idea. He has a list of the 5 small changes waiting to be published and he can't undo the first change or even better delete or cancel that change. He then he gets nervous and decides he does not want to change anything but he's stuffed. The changes are all there ready to be published. Even if he logs out and back in again, they're still there! How can he delete the changes from the publish list?
Maybe I'm missing something simple but I don't know what to say to him. Surely this is a must have feature !!
I was rather annoyed when I discovered this issue, as the ease of editing is one of my key selling points. Now I can't tell Webflow is the perfect solution...
What is wrong with the devs? This is awful! Why is this still a problem in 2023?!? What do I do with this unpublished change I do not want! I even manually changed it back and it still persists! Awful. Help!
Wild to me that this doesn't exist yet! My clients are confused and so am I. As far as I'm concerned, the editor is useless without this feature. I also feel like Webflow should be more transparent about this in editor guides; there should be a legitimate warning!
This is such basic functionality that I didn't even look for it until I was showing someone the editor and made a mistake. "Okay, we can just undo that..." oh! but little did I know.
It's 2022 so it's been about 5 years, and this feature still isn't available. I just don't understand this. I need to move Clients over from Webflow to WordPress just because of this feature alone and I really do not want to do so. It's a downside to using Webflow if you create a Website for clients, this should be a no-brainer.
Can someone explain why Webflow might not want to address this or even answer us? Am I missing something? Maybe it's technologically not possible?
I agree with Josh below, I had a client asking about this today. It does look Webflow look unprofessional.
They can remove an image by accident, not have the old one on their computer and now they're stuck without image and can't publish changes until I can fix it for them on my end.
Editor would greatly benefit from undo/redo button.
Any ETA on this? It's mind-boggling that this basic feature has been missing for this long.
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This oversight does make the editor a lot more intimidating to my clients than it ought to be.
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This is SUPER frustrating. Horrible user experience for CMS editors.
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Clients request this feature a lot, probably because it features in other CMS's they've moved from.
Even the ability to discard all changes would be helpful.
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Also, my collaborators must have the possibility to suggest accepting their changes even if they have not the possibility to directly publish.
Or I should have (as site admin) the possibility to see a list of suggestions and decide wether to apply them or not.
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A client makes 5 small changes then realises the first was not a good idea. He has a list of the 5 small changes waiting to be published and he can't undo the first change or even better delete or cancel that change. He then he gets nervous and decides he does not want to change anything but he's stuffed. The changes are all there ready to be published. Even if he logs out and back in again, they're still there! How can he delete the changes from the publish list?
Maybe I'm missing something simple but I don't know what to say to him. Surely this is a must have feature !!
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Clients currently have to get in touch with me to manually revert changes. This is making one of them second guess going with Webflow 🫤
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The editor system should be better arranged for users and regular user errors.
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Absolutely shocking not to have this function. Genuinely appalling...
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I was rather annoyed when I discovered this issue, as the ease of editing is one of my key selling points. Now I can't tell Webflow is the perfect solution...
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Absolutely mental that this basic feature of "undo" still isn't on Webflow after 6 years of asking for it.
No good explanation from my hours of research, just excuses like "all CMS' are like this". No they're not. My client feels duped, as do I.
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What is wrong with the devs? This is awful! Why is this still a problem in 2023?!? What do I do with this unpublished change I do not want! I even manually changed it back and it still persists! Awful. Help!
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why has this never been implemented? I was surprised today when training a client and they asked for this basic feature.
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2023 and incredible Webflow still doesnt support..." Undo" 😂
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Wild to me that this doesn't exist yet! My clients are confused and so am I. As far as I'm concerned, the editor is useless without this feature. I also feel like Webflow should be more transparent about this in editor guides; there should be a legitimate warning!
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This is such basic functionality that I didn't even look for it until I was showing someone the editor and made a mistake. "Okay, we can just undo that..." oh! but little did I know.
I was super embarrassed.
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It's 2022 so it's been about 5 years, and this feature still isn't available.
I just don't understand this.
I need to move Clients over from Webflow to WordPress just because of this feature alone and I really do not want to do so. It's a downside to using Webflow if you create a Website for clients, this should be a no-brainer.
Can someone explain why Webflow might not want to address this or even answer us? Am I missing something? Maybe it's technologically not possible?
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... very confused by this lack of a feature and so are my clients.
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WEBFLOW PLEASE FIX. IT UNDO BUTTON!
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I agree with Josh below, I had a client asking about this today. It does look Webflow look unprofessional.
They can remove an image by accident, not have the old one on their computer and now they're stuck without image and can't publish changes until I can fix it for them on my end.
Editor would greatly benefit from undo/redo button.
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