Document editing seems to be broken since it shows a published document as being in draft state rather than live. I don’t want to publish my changes (there are no changes) since it would update the published timestamp.
We’re planning to do a full review and refresh of our documents in 2026. We want to focus on the oldest content first to make sure it’s refreshed. If a content creator starts making changes, but doesn’t publish their document then the document will appear to be recently edited (in draft mode) and we lose original publisher attribution on the /builder/working page.
What steps have you taken to resolve this issue already?
I tried going to the “view history” section and restoring to the published version.
Errors
The document still shows as a draft with recent changes rather than Live and published several days ago.
Your Role
Developer / Content Creator
Steps to reproduce
Open any published document. Make a change and decide you don’t want to save your change. The document now shows as draft and I can’t undo to what I had before.
Thanks for raising this. What you should see when a saved draft exists is both the draft itself, and on the righthand side bar, the published version, such as in this screenshot of a dummy repo:
If you click on the Published version, you'll see the live one that hasn't been modified with any of the draft changes, and it should keep both the original timestamp and person who published it. Does that make sense and help, or am I misunderstanding your issue here?
From this page it looks like I’m editing the “For Teachers” page (it’s in draft mode), however I want it to go back to showing the published timestamp under “Last Update” so we know it’s an older document someone else (not me) should be reviewing and updating.
I see @robert.doidge, currently there's no way to achieve that. The last edited version will always show in the main page, so you can't switch that view. I can make a feature request for it though, how do you use this in your workflow?
so we know it’s an older document someone else (not me) should be reviewing and updating.
Could you clarify what you mean here? This will help make a case for the feature. Thanks!
