Revisions are confusing

[ekrist1]

Bug description

Revisions are confusing in version 6.x. When you make a change to a page in a collection that has revisions turned on, there is no visual badges to show that you have unpublished changes. It seems that this was a feature that was present in previous versions. The challenge is that it is very difficult to get an overview of pages that have unpublished changes. There should also have been a badge in the list in the collection. See attached images.

How to reproduce

Turn on the revision feature on a collection
Make a change to the page

Logs

Environment

Environment
Application Name: PBL
Laravel Version: 12.47.0
PHP Version: 8.4.16
Composer Version: 2.9.1
Environment: local
Debug Mode: ENABLED
URL: pblweb.test
Maintenance Mode: OFF
Timezone: UTC
Locale: no

Cache
Config: NOT CACHED
Events: NOT CACHED
Routes: NOT CACHED
Views: CACHED

Drivers
Broadcasting: log
Cache: file
Database: mysql
Logs: stack / single
Mail: log
Queue: database
Session: file

Storage
C:\hidden\storage: LINKED

Statamic
Addons: 1
Sites: 1
Stache Watcher: Enabled (auto)
Static Caching: Disabled
Version: 6.0.0-beta.2 PRO

Statamic Addons
statamic/seo-pro: 7.0.0-beta.1

Installation

Fresh statamic/statamic site via CLI

Additional details

No response

[duncanmcclean]

The old screenshot you provided is from a while ago (2019/2020ish). The "Unpublished Changes" text next to the buttons doesn't exist on v5.

If you click on the "View History" button in the sidebar, it'll show you which revision is currently published, which one is the "working copy" (eg. the one you're currently looking at) and all the revisions in between:

[ekrist1]

Yes, I'm aware of the view history and that you are able to find that you have a working copy, however, it would be great if there was a indication that this page has a unpublished working copy, without the need to open the history.

[jasonvarga]

Looks like its just missing a line in that revisions panel.

[jasonvarga]

For what it's worth though, on v6 it looks the same as it does in v5 currently.

When I've got some unsaved changes:

After I save:

So this isn't "a v6 issue".

[ekrist1]

When you edit a page with revision you see a message with "Unsaved changes" like your image:

Our workflow is that we work on multiple pages and it would be very nice to have a message like " ! Unpublished changes " to get a fast visual that this page has a working copy. Just a minor thing that will improve the UX :)

[JorisOrangeStudio]

Perhaps adding a message like “This version isn’t published” or “This is the working copy” (in different color) in the Revisions panel, instead of displaying nothing when it’s a working copy, would be helpful. This could be placed in the same spot where “This is the published version” is currently displayed when it’s published.

Currently, it’s only clear that the current page is published when you see these two lines, which can be confusing;

[jasonvarga]

I'm not disagreeing at all. Just stating its not a new issue in v6.