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Hey Alex! Worry not! We actually will have activity history both available for Loop components and Loop pages.
Version history is available today for Loop components -- you can click the title of the component, and then when it opens in Office.com clicking the title will allow you to view the backing OneDrive/SharePoint file, which will also give you access to version history.
We also offer attribution for Loop components and Loop pages, which will let you see who made a given change and when to a specific piece of text/content on the page.
We are building a richer version of this into the Loop app so that you don't need to rely on the SharePoint experience --- nothing to announce on those details just yet, but we absolutely have it in plan.
We feel like things like version history are essential to creating a culture of trust on your team. I know I would also freak out editing a team member's content if I felt like they wouldn't be able to recover their thoughts if they didn't like my changes.
- Great answer and thanks for confirming this Shane. Today, attribution is supported in text-based blocks. Will it be supported for checklists and other types of Loop blocks?
I heard an answer from Microsoft to a question very similar to this , and basically it was "no, version history won't be a feature of a loop component precisely as it is designed to change" or words to that effect.
- That's terrible news. That same argument from MS can be made to justify WHY activity history is needed. I'm not even asking for full version history like we get with other Office documents. Just a log of the who, what and when would be sufficient for me.
- There is version history built in now using SharePoint / OneDrive’s file version feature. Within a Loop, you can hover of some text or a Loop block and see who contributed it. If someone changed it. You will see a short list of people who made changes and you can see their changes if you hover over the name. Will a Loop component or page have an activity history feed? Time will tell 😉
- Hey folks, don't worry -- we do indeed plan to have both attribution and version history for both Loop pages and Loop components 🙂. Take a look at my more detailed post above.
