---
title: "Deal Room version history"
slug: "/help/deal-rooms/version-history"
sidebar_position: 7
tags: ["deal room","idr","version history","restore","version control","drafts"]
description: "Browse, restore, and branch from earlier snapshots of a Deal Room without touching what your buyers currently see."
product: "deal-rooms"
sidebar_label: "Version history"
last_updated: "2026-09-16T16:38:47.512Z"
---

## **About This Feature**

**Version history** gives every Deal Room a timeline of whole-room snapshots you can preview, restore, or branch into a new room. It's the same history panel the demo template editor uses, so if you already know [Version Control for demo templates](/help/demos/edit/structure/version-control), this will feel familiar.

The important difference from a document's undo: **restoring affects your draft, not the live room.** What your buyers see changes on your next publish and not a moment before.

### **Snapshot 📸**

**Feature Status:** Included with Deal Rooms (Add-On)

**Role Access:** Admin, Editor

**Location:** Deal Room editor → the **"Last edited …"** line in the top bar

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## **When a Version Is Captured**

Walnut writes a snapshot of the whole room at three moments:

- **Published** — every time you publish the Deal Room
- **Session end** — an automatic checkpoint when you finish an editing session
- **Before restore** — taken automatically just before you restore, so a restore is always undoable

Autosave does **not** create versions. Autosave fires every couple of seconds while you work; capturing each one would bury the list in noise.

A snapshot someone deliberately named shows as **Checkpoint**; an automatic end-of-session one shows as **Session end**.

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## **Quick Start Guide**

### **1\. Open version history**

In the Deal Room editor, click the **"Last edited …"** line in the top bar. The history panel opens with versions grouped by day, newest first.

### **2\. Preview a version**

Click any row to load that version's content into the canvas. You're looking at a frozen copy — nothing you click changes it, and your draft is untouched while you browse.

**Current version** at the top of the list is your live draft. Select it to get back to where you started.

### **3\. Restore or branch**

With a version selected you have two actions:

- **Restore** — replaces your **draft** with this version's content. The published Deal Room your buyers see is unchanged until you publish again.
- **Make a copy** — creates a brand-new Deal Room from this version, named *Copy of [room name]*. The room you're in is left completely alone.

### **4\. Exit**

Click **Exit version history** to drop back into the editor on your current draft.

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## **Undoing a Restore**

You don't need to remember what you had. Walnut checkpoints your draft on the way into a restore, labelled **Before restore** — so to undo a restore, open version history again and restore the **Before restore** entry that sits just above it.

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## **Publishing After a Restore**

Restoring only moves your draft. To put a restored version in front of your buyers, **publish** the Deal Room as you normally would.

That separation is deliberate: it means you can restore an old version to check something, decide against it, and restore back — all without a buyer ever seeing the room flicker between states.

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## **FAQs**

**Does restoring an old version delete the newer ones?**
No. Nothing is removed from the timeline. The version you restored *from* is still there, and so is the automatic **Before restore** checkpoint.

**Will my buyers see the room change when I restore?**
No. Restoring touches the draft only. They see the last published version until you publish again.

**Does "Make a copy" affect the original room?**
No. It creates a separate Deal Room from that snapshot — including its CRM connection status, sharing settings, and analytics, which all start fresh on the copy.

**Why can't I find a version from a specific edit I made?**
Versions are captured on publish, at session end, and before a restore — not on every autosave. If an edit was made and undone inside one session, it may not have its own snapshot.

**Who can restore a version?**
Anyone with edit access to the Deal Room — Admin or Editor.

**I opened history and it says nothing has changed.**
That message (*"Your draft hasn't changed. Pick another version, or exit to go back to it."*) means the version you selected is identical to your current draft. Pick a different row, or exit.

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`deal room` `idr` `version history` `restore` `snapshots` `publishing` `drafts`