View Block versions

Block versions allow you and your team to see how changes to your Block will affect your site without having to deploy your changes to production.

Once a Block has been pushed to Contensis, each Block push will create a new Block version.

The Blocks version screen provides a view of all changes made to a Block, who made them, and their commit details to provide more context.

From the Blocks version screen, you can preview a Block change, roll back to a previous Block, view the console logs for a Block, or check a version's details.

1. Select Blocks in the sidebar to open the Blocks listing screen.
2. Press on the Block you want to view. The Blocks version listing will be displayed.

The listing shows every version of a Block, with the following columns:

• Live – a tick shows the version that's currently live.
• Version – the version number. Select it to view the version's details.
• Status – whether the version is Available, Broken, or has no running instances (None).
• Commit ID – links to the commit in your source control provider.
• Commit message
• Committed – who committed the change, and when.
• Released – who released the version, and when. Shows "Not yet released" for versions that haven't been released.
• Preview – opens a preview of that version.

Use the All and Broken tabs to filter the list.

Select a version number from the listing to open its details. This screen has two tabs: Summary and Console logs.

The Summary tab shows an overview of the version:

• Version – the version number.
• Running state – whether the version is currently available.
• Made live – who made the version live, and when.
• Released – who released the version, and when.

Details of the commit that produced this version, including the commit ID, comparison link, commit date, author, committer, commit message, and who pushed the version to Contensis and when.

Details of the container image used by this version, including its registry URI, tag, and the size of the container image.

The deployment and workflow state of the version, its running status, and its availability in each of your data centres.

Any additional static asset paths configured for this version. See Blocks: Advanced configuration for more on static paths.

Select the Console logs tab to view the container's log output for this version. You can:

• Choose a Data centre to view logs from.
• Select Load more to load earlier log entries.
• Turn Show timestamps on or off.
• Set a Date range to filter the logs shown.
• Turn on Show previous terminated container logs to include logs from containers that are no longer running.

For troubleshooting guidance, see Debugging and logging in Blocks.