Design recovery with Visual History

Aside from browsing a designs in old revision, Visual History also allows you to restore a diagram from old revision. Let's say you have deleted a shape by mistake and you want to get it back. You can locate in Visual History the revision that has the shape intact, and get it back by clicking the Revert button (You will learn how in this page). Besides restoring changes one by one, you can restore the whole diagram. By doing so, the whole diagram will be overwritten by the old version.

Revert modification

In the Visual History window, when you are comparing diagrams, there are indicators that appear on diagram showing the areas of changes. Click on an indicator to popup the modification summary.

To review modifications
Review the modifications.

Review modifications
If you want to revert ALL the modifications listed in the modification summary, click the Revert button at the bottom of the summary popup.

Revert modifications
If you want to revert a specific modification, move the mouse point below the last modification to show the Details... button. Click on it.

Review modification details
The modifications are listed in in a table. You can click on individual modification and then click the Revert button to revert it.

Revert a modification

Restore deleted shape

In the Visual History window, when comparing diagrams, click on the indicator that appears on top of the deleted shape.

To get deleted shape back
Click the Restore button in the Delete Details popup to get the shape back.

Restore a deleted shape