Working with your model
History and snapshots
Undo your own steps, see who changed what in the activity log, and compare, pin or restore the automatic snapshots of a workspace.
Archibara saves every change as you make it; there is no Save button. While a change is being written, the status bar shows Saving…. Three tools let you look back: undo and redo, the activity log and snapshots.
Undo and redo
Press Ctrl+Z to undo and Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo (⌘ on a Mac), or use the arrows in the toolbar.
- Undo works on your own changes in the workspace you have open, in this browser tab, up to your last 50 steps. Opening another workspace or reloading the page starts a fresh history.
- A step is one change as you made it: a batch edit, a paste or an auto layout is a single step.
- Undo never overwrites other people's work. If someone else has changed the same items since, those items stay as they are and Archibara tells you what it could not undo. A step that fails stays in your history, so you can try again.
Inside a text field, Ctrl+Z undoes your typing as usual.
Activity
Select Activity in the status bar to see recent changes to the workspace. Each entry shows the time, where the change came from (UI, MCP, System or Import), who made it, and what changed. Changes made by an AI client through MCP name the person whose key was used, followed by "(MCP)".
Snapshots
A snapshot is a complete copy of the workspace: its model, views, layouts, catalogs, records and flows. Select Snapshots in the status bar to see them, newest first, with their source and revision.
Archibara takes snapshots automatically:
- before every change to the model made in the editor, including undo and redo, and before every batch of operations from an AI client;
- before a change to the catalogs;
- before a snapshot is restored, so a restore can itself be reverted.
Moving cards and other layout-only changes do not create snapshots. Editors can also select Create snapshot to keep a named point, labelled Manual snapshot.
Compare
Select Compare next to a snapshot to see what has changed since: Compare snapshot with current state lists every object, connection, record, diagram, boundary, placement and presentation that was Added, Removed or Changed, with its Before and After values. Filter by Entity type and Change type; model changes and layout changes are listed separately. Everyone who can open the workspace can compare.
Pin
Automatic snapshots are kept for a limited time and number, depending on your plan. Older ones are removed to make room for new ones. To keep a snapshot regardless, an Editor can select Pin; Unpin releases it again. The number of pinned snapshots per workspace depends on the plan, and the Free plan does not include pinning. See the pricing page for the exact retention of each plan.
Restore
A workspace Administrator can select Restore next to a snapshot. The workspace returns to the snapshot's state for everyone, and the change appears in Activity.
Before restoring, Archibara takes a snapshot of the current state, labelled "Before restoring" and the snapshot's name. If the restore was a mistake, restore that one.