Mechanism for partial document restore

摘要

Method and apparatus for managing versions of a portion of a document on a computing system are described. Multiple versions of an object in the document are maintained on the computing system. A graphical representation of at least two versions of the object is displayed on a display to a user of the computing system. A previous version of the object is selected from the at least two versions of the object through an input device, and the object in the document is restored to the selected previous version. The object is a portion of the document less than the entirety of the document.

主权项

1. A method for managing a plurality of versions of a document, the method comprising:
by a computing system:
causing a graphical representation of a previous version of the document and one or more objects of the previous version of the document to be displayed within a user interface (UI) of the computing system, wherein each object of the one or more objects represents a portion of the previous version of the document, and each object includes an action indicator in an object region of the UI that characterizes a manner in which the object is configured to be implemented in a revised version of the document;receiving a selection of a particular object among the one or more objects; andin response to receiving the selection:
generating the revised version of the document that includes the particular object implemented according to the action indicator associated with the particular object; anddisplaying the revised version of the document.