A draft is a 'snapshot' of unsaved page content, which Confluence creates automatically at regular intervals while you are editing a page or blog post. This can minimise the loss of work if your Confluence site experiences a problem, since you can retrieve the page content from your last saved draft. On this page:

How are drafts implemented in Confluence?

At regular intervals, Confluence automatically saves a draft of the page you are editing. If a network failure or system error prevents you from saving your page, you can retrieve its last saved draft and continue working on the page from (or almost from) where you left off.

• Drafts are created while you are adding and editing a page or blog post. Each new draft replaces the previously saved draft.
  
  
• Each time Confluence saves a draft, it displays a message and the time of the last save near the Save button on the edit screen.
  
  Screenshot: Message displaying the time when the draft was last saved
  

Whenever you edit a page and click one of the other page tabs, Confluence will automatically save a draft. When you click on the 'Edit' tab again, Confluence will let you know that a version of the page you are editing was not saved and will give you the option to resume editing it.

• By default, Confluence saves a draft of your page once every thirty seconds. However, a Confluence administrator can configure how often drafts are saved.

Drafts Possess the Following Characteristics

• A user only has access to the drafts of pages they have been working on and whose content has not yet been saved.

• A user cannot create a draft explicitly.

• A user's drafts are listed in the 'Drafts' tab of their profile.

• Once a user has resumed editing a draft, or chosen to discard it, it is removed from their drafts tab.

Viewing Unsaved Changes

While editing a page or blog post, you can view any 'unsaved' changes you have made since the last automatically saved draft, by clicking view change (near the Save button).

Screenshot: Segment of the Unpublished Changes Window

Viewing Drafts

Your drafts are listed on the Drafts tab of your user profile.

To see your drafts:

関連トピック

Viewing Drafts
Resuming the Editing of a Draft
Configuring the Time Interval at which Drafts are Saved
Concurrent Editing and Merging Changes

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