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Using Archives to Restore Deleted Web Pages

Synopsis: Retrieve prior copies, lost content and accidentally deleted work.

About the Archives Feature

The archives feature is accessible within each section or collection of your site. Access the archives to recover one previous version of published or deleted content (prior versions of drafts are not archived).

How to View Archives

  1. Login to KSE
  2. In your site, navigate to the content you'd like to edit
    • Web page located in a section: using the "Site Map," find the section
    • Content stored in a collection: using the "Site Map," find the Collection
  3. Click on the "View Archive" tab at the far right

How to Restore a Deleted Web Page

  1. You will see a list of recent activities in the section archive. Find the Web page that you would like to recover from the list

Note: Published pages will have the icon, while drafts will have the icon. Deleted published or draft pages will have the icon as well. The most recent version of pages/drafts appears above the earlier ones, which are indented in the listing.

  1. Click once on the name of the deleted page/draft you would like to recover
  2. Click on "View this deleted Web page/draft" to view it, or click "Restore this deleted Web page/draft" to recover it

How to Restore an Earlier Version of a Web Page

  1. Select the modified Web page you would like to recover by clicking on it once - earlier versions of a Web page will have the icon

Note: It is not possible to restore earlier versions of a draft. It is also not possible to restore earlier versions of a deleted Web page. To do that, the deleted Web page should be recovered first before an earlier version is restored as a draft (detail below*).

  1. On the drop-down menu, click "View this archived Web page" to view it, or click "Restore this archived Web page as a draft" to recover it as a draft

  1. After clicking "Restore this archived Web page as a draft," click "Continue" and navigate to your section
  2. Select the draft page by clicking on it once
  3. Select "Publish this draft" from the drop-down menu

  1. Click "OK"
  2. Click "Continue"

Note: Be sure that the page you are recovering is the version you would like to restore. Publishing a recovered draft will replace the existing Web page with the earlier version and convert it into a Web page.

*How to Restore an Earlier Version of a Deleted Web Page

  1. View the Archive for the section you want to work on
  2. Click on the name of the deleted Web page with the and icons to recover it
  3. From the drop-down menu, select "Restore this deleted Web page"

  1. Click "Continue"
  2. Go back to the Archive by clicking on "View Archive"
  3. Click on the name of the earlier deleted version, with the icon, of the Web page you just recovered
  4. Select "Restore this archived Web page as a draft"

  1. Click "Continue"
  2. Select the draft by clicking on the name once, then click "Publish this draft"

  1. Click "OK"
  2. Click "Continue"

Note: Be sure that the page you are recovering is the version you would like to restore. Publishing a recovered draft will replace the existing Web page with the earlier version and convert it into a Web page.

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