Revision history for view-only permissions

Hi ​@Nelson R,

Thank you for this thoughtful idea and for providing details about your specific use case! You are correct that in order to restore a document to a previous version using Revision history, you must have edit access.

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

Hi Alison,

Thank you for reviewing.

Just to clarify, I’m just suggesting allowing access to the Revision History without requiring Edit access - the Restore feature within it should probably still be blocked to users without Edit access.

In my work, I need to review architecture created by other teams, which are most often in LucidChart. These architectures evolve, and so it is beneficial for me (and my team) to be able to see past versions of the diagram and compare them. If we get edit permissions, that’s easy to do. However, with view only permissions, we can’t access the version history in the menu, and don’t have a way to do it. Viewing change history with read-only permissions (without being able to restore) is exactly what we need.

Hi ​@Shahar M,

Thank you for providing those additional details. It makes total sense why viewing the revision history would be valuable for those with view-only access, especially for tracking progress without needing full edit permissions.

This feedback is especially useful for our product team. To anyone else reading, please upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This helps us greatly when prioritizing our roadmap!