# Document Changes History **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [June 29, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730 "2021-06-29T13:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/1 "2021-06-29T13:17:52Z")
We are going to release Docs/Rich Edit text editing history soon, it will work like this: ![2021-06-29 16.16.01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7fd1e874fd9b94702f25685435d5fae6f6439c16.gif) Will you miss anything in this implementation? What are your cases for Docs/Rich Edit text editing history? ---
**Author:** ![Simon\_JB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/simon_jb/32/1453_2.png) [@Simon\_JB](https://community.fibery.io/u/Simon_JB)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/2 "2021-06-29T13:22:16Z")
Selecting a past version and having a toggle to highlight the changes vs today’s version (added lines colored in green, changed in orange, deleted lines in red) would be nice, Google docs style. Not a deal-breaker for me, but I see two main use case for this - 1 recover a previous version in case someone messed up - 2 checking up on a doc that has changed a lot in the past few days / weeks and see at a glance what is new and who made the change. It seems your implementation currently covers use case 1 but if you have a very busy team (not my case), use case 2 might be even more important… Otherwise people have to signal their important changes using comments which rapidly becomes a bit cumbersome. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/3 "2021-06-29T15:08:33Z")
Yes – the ability to see differences between any version and the previous version, and any version and the current version would be super useful, to figure out which version you want to restore after a bunch of changes have been made. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/4 "2021-06-29T15:57:37Z")
How will this functionality integrate with the existing entity activity history? It looks like they are two separate history logs… ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/5 "2021-06-29T17:13:51Z")
So far they are fully separated. We’d like to collect cases when you need the merged history. It’s possible to do, but we are not sure it is important enough. ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/6 "2021-06-29T17:19:36Z")
100% agree with @Simon_JB and @Matt_Blais that a “highlight changes” will be important for this feature, at least long-term. Initial release can be without that, but to really be a good implementation it should have version differencing, ideally between arbitrary versions, but at least between immediately successive ones. Once again I’d point to Discourse as a pretty good implementation. 😉 Although I don’t think it does arbitrary version comparison (that one’s not a must though, as I say). Two other things I’d love to have, that sort of work together. One is _Named Versions_, the other is _Copy version to new document_. The use case here, for example, is let’s say I make a proposal document and it is version 1.0. I send it to an external client for review. They request some changes, I make those, then some other team members make some changes, there are many revisions until a 1.1 of the doc which we send to the client. Later a different client wants something similar to what was in 1.0 of our proposal. The one we sent to the first client was a PDF, and nobody wants to edit a PDF or copy the text out into a doc to redo it. We could try to edit 1.1 back to 1.0, but that sucks too when we already have the 1.0 version in there somewhere. We can check the date of that PDF export to find the approximate revision, but if there were several that day it might be hard to find the exact one. A named version would let us call it “1.0” when we export that version, then return immediately to that version at any time in the future. Then once we do find it, it would be nice to be able to just copy that out to a new doc to start a new version/“fork”. This may sound like a bit of a contrived case but I do things like this all the time in my day job, usually using GDocs. I do want to say, though, that these latter two features are definite “nice to haves”, but whether you should work on them obviously depends on how useful they are to others, how long they would take, and how much they fit with the sophistication you want Fibery docs to have. I don’t need to remind _you_ of that (Fibery team), I more just want to acknowledge that I’m aware that not everything that would be “nice to have” should be implemented. They are indispensable features in Google Docs in my opinion, but may be out of scope for Fibery. Certainly there are other things I’d want to see developed before these, if it was a choice between, say, improved activity/notifications features and named version/copy version. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/7 "2021-06-29T17:54:07Z")
> [@mdubakov](#): > > we are not sure it is important enough No it’s not that important, I just wanted to check I’d understood the implementation. > [@Oshyan](#): > > Two other things I’d love to have, that sort of work together. One is _Named Versions_ , To be honest, I’d like support for named versions for the entity as a whole (I guess implying that it is shown in both activity histories). And the icing on the cake would be being able to name versions programmatically (via buttons/automations) ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/8 "2021-06-29T18:39:24Z")
> [@Oshyan](#): > > Named Versions DEFINITELY THIS 💖 I find named versions _indispensable_ in Google Docs. We use Google Docs to author web page content, and I make a version name for a doc whenever I upload its contents to the web page (“Uploaded to website [date] - Matt”). That way I can quickly check the doc’s version history to see if it has been modified since I uploaded it to the web page. Super useful! ---
**Author:** ![rothnic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rothnic/32/1850_2.png) [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/9 "2021-06-29T18:59:56Z")
> [@mdubakov](#): > > So far they are fully separated. We’d like to collect cases when you need the merged history. It’s possible to do, but we are not sure it is important enough. What was your assumption for what a merged history would look like? I would think that you at least want something on the entity change history that mentions there was a change, with maybe a link to the view you demo’d. Otherwise, it would likely be confusing to people that the entity change history doesn’t include all changes. I don’t know how important that is though. Document and entity change history isn’t a big need for us currently. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/10 "2021-06-29T19:47:44Z")
> [@rothnic](#): > > Otherwise, it would likely be confusing to people that the entity change history doesn’t include all changes. Yeah, that’s basically what I was getting at. But as long as people know to look in both places it’s not the end of the world, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![sebastien\_pierre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/sebastien_pierre/32/1916_2.png) [@sebastien\_pierre](https://community.fibery.io/u/sebastien_pierre)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/11 "2021-07-01T02:21:04Z")
Adding my voice to the thread: highlighting differences since last visit would be great, or at the very minimum indicating that the content has changed (maybe with a visual denotation of changes in the clock icon?). The use case being: I’ve looked at that document a while back, has there been any change since then? and if so, what did change? ---
**Author:** ![ebell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ebell/32/1293_2.png) [@ebell](https://community.fibery.io/u/ebell)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/12 "2021-07-02T23:51:59Z")
I move much of my activity over to ClickUp because of their History & writing features. (but am still hopeful for Fibery!) ![Screen Shot 2021-07-02 at 5.49.32 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/d7ff1b7ca99583088371ad7f46e15ff5d249da6e.png) ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/13 "2021-07-30T14:51:38Z")
This is implemented and released (with changes highlights). Thank you for the feedback! > [@CHANGELOG: July 30 / Documents and Rich-text History, HubSpot integration](https://community.fibery.io/t/changelog-july-30-documents-and-rich-text-history-hubspot-integration/1855): > > Documents and Rich-Text History Starting this week, rich-text Fields and Documents have version history: [doc-history] Here are a few scenarios when version history can help (or even save the day): Somebody (Alex, you again!) has accidentally erased a significant part of your doc and you need to restore it. There is an unexpected paragraph and you’d like to find out who has added it. You rewrote a specification during an all-nighter — now you’ve sobered woken up and realized it’s all been a… ![Screenshot 2021-07-30 at 5.42.47 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/3/3526ee9429907fb7b999622809103d10fe705246.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/document-changes-history/1730/14 "2021-07-30T22:53:34Z")
Very nice! I see you’ve been keeping history already. 😃 So I take it the version comparison is between selected version and the one immediately previous? (i.e. "what changed in this version) Rather than e.g. between selected version and _current_ version. This is not a complaint, just want to clarify/confirm.