# Dashboard History

We’ve introduced **Dashboard History** for manual dashboards, available on both **Global Dashboards** and **Device Dashboards**. This feature allows you to track, review, and restore changes made to your dashboards over time.<br>

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Dashboard history is *only* available for manually created dashboards. This means pre-configured dashboards, such as the Climate Monitoring Dashboard, will not have this feature available.
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### Overview

With history, every change to a dashboard is recorded, giving you full visibility into its changes over time. This includes actions such as:

* Adding or duplicating widgets
* Editing widget content or layout
* Creating or modifying tabs
* Restoring previous versions

Each change creates a new entry in the dashboard history.

### Accessing the Audit Log

While in **Edit Mode**, click the **“History”** button in the top toolbar to open the dashboard history panel.

From there, you can:

* View a chronological list of all changes
* See who made the change and when
* Review optional change descriptions
* Restore any previous version of the dashboard<br>

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### Change Descriptions

When saving a dashboard, you have the option to add a **change description**.

* This helps document what was modified (e.g. *“Added second widget”*)
* If left empty, a default message like *“Dashboard updated”* will be used<br>

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### Restoring Previous Versions

You can restore any previous state of the dashboard with a single click.

* Click **“Restore”** on any history entry
* The dashboard will revert to that version
* The restore action itself is also logged as a new history entry

This makes it easy to undo mistakes or roll back changes.<br>

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### Behaviour Across Dashboard Types

The history functionality works consistently across:

* **Global Dashboards**
* **Device Dashboards**

All changes are tracked using the same logic, regardless of dashboard type.

### Key Benefits

* **Full transparency** of dashboard changes
* **Version control** without manual backups
* **Easy rollback** to previous states
* **Improved collaboration** across teams


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