• Introduction
• Viewing Version History
• Managing Versions
• Restoring Deleted Content
• Printing and Exporting
• Test Your Knowledge

Restoring Deleted Content

You can restore deleted content items from the Content Modification Log.

The following content items can be undeleted:

• Pages
• Media files
• Global data items
• Page data folder items

To restore a deleted content item:

1. Open the Content Modification Log from the System perspective.
2. Locate and select a content item (for example, a page) with the “Delete” activity.
3. Click “Restore” on the toolbar.

^{Figure 28: Restoring a deleted page}

The item will appear in its corresponding location.

The versioning history will have a “Rollback” task logged for this operation.

^{Figure 29: A page rollback logged}

Limitations and recommendations

Please take into account the following recommendations and limitations when restoring deleted content:

• The following page-related data is not restored when a page is restored:

• Its subpages if any
• Its page metadata
• Attached page data folders
• Data attached to the page via page data folders
• Attached CMS Console applications (tree definitions)
• Data attached to the page via CMS Console applications

• On single-language websites CMS pages are restored as root pages, which you are informed with a respective message about. You may want to move the restored page to its original location manually.
• On multiple-language website, CMS pages are restored to its original position provided that the page still exists in at least one locale.
• CMS pages and publishable data items are restored unpublished.
• To restore a global data item, make sure that the global data type is still available.
• To restore a page data folder item, make sure that the page data folder it belongs to is still attached to a page.
• Media files will restore the original folder structure if it has not been kept.