Comparing Changes on a Web Page

As you edit page templates in the site hierarchy, there may be times when you want to see what has changed on a given page, before and after you (or someone else) edited that page. You may want to know, for example, how much text was removed, how much new text was added, and where most of the edits took place.

You can do this using the document comparison feature in Site Studio. You can use this feature to compare page templates in Designer, and you can use it to compare web pages from the contribution graphic on a web page. Depending on which one you use, you are comparing different results.

When comparing page templates in Designer, you compare two versions of a page template: the one stored in memory and the latest one checked into the content server. In other words, you're seeing the changes you've made to the page before you save it.
When comparing web pages using the contribution graphic, you compare two versions of a complete web page, which may comprise data files, native documents, page templates, fragments, and more. When you compare web pages like this, you compare the most current version of the page and the latest released version in the content server.

You only see a difference between the current version and the latest released version of a web page when the release date has been set for a future time, or the page is part of a workflow and hasn't been approved yet. See Using Workflows for more information.

The following sections describe this feature in more detail: