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Introducing Coauthoring for SharePoint Pages and News

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Melito
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Jul 16, 2024
We’re excited to announce that we’ve started rolling out the ability for multiple authors to collaborate on SharePoint pages. Multiple authors will be able to edit the same page at the same time, wit...
Updated Jul 16, 2024
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Melito
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Aug 26, 2024

Hi nrossing, thanks so much for your feedback. A couple of questions for you that I would really appreciate your input on. 1) As you mention, version history actually provides 2 options to Delete (which is the same as Discard) and to Restore. Would renaming the Delete to Discard be helpful at all? 2) You are correct that performing either action will be captured while previously Discard was not. This was actually done intentionally to provide the full history of a page. It sounds like you're actually looking for the 'I looked at the page but no one knows'. Is that correct? On the alerts, a change would have to be made to trigger it just opening the page shouldn't trigger it. If you're not seeing that we might have a bug so please let me know. 

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AnoRnymous
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Jan 14, 2025
  1. Maybe you meant it otherwise, but deleting is absolutely not the same as discarding. Discarding would be cancelling changes that aren't saved/published yet, while deleting is erasing a current or previous version. Renaming delete to discard would certainly not be helpful and would confuse users even more.
  2. It's not about looking at the page as in looking through the view-option, it's looking at the back of the page, while in edit-mode. You want to have an option to edit the page and to lookup what you have configured in some web parts for example. A different scenario would be that someone makes a concept for a new version but isn't happy with it and wants to keep the old one. When you therefore need to republish the same page it messes with modified dates without any proper goal. And what if someone accidentely hits the edit button? Why would you want a page have updated modified times all of the time? That's just causing a lot of confusion. The need of republishing is not helping at all in those cases.