Saving, undo & history

How autosave works

There's no Save button. Every change saves to your account a moment after you make it, and the top bar shows Saving… and then All changes saved. If it says Changes not saved, your edits are still on screen: check your connection, click Retry, and keep the tab open until it saves.

Undo and redo

Click the Undo arrow in the top bar, or press Cmd+Z on a Mac or Ctrl+Z on Windows, to reverse your last change. Redo is Cmd+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y. You can step back up to 60 changes. Undo history resets when you reload, switch seating plans or restore a version.

Version history and restore Pro

Lovely Seating saves a snapshot of your whole wedding every few minutes while you edit, plus one before each Auto-Seat. Click the clock icon in the top bar to open Version history, then click Restore next to the snapshot you want. Your current state is saved first as Before restore, so you can switch back. It's a Pro feature.

Delete a wedding or seating plan, and undo it

Delete a wedding from the dashboard with the ⋯ menu, then Delete. A message with Undo stays for 30 seconds; after that it's gone for good. To hide a wedding safely, choose Archive instead and restore it any time. A single seating plan is deleted from the plan switcher and can be recovered with version history.

Download a backup copy of your wedding

On your dashboard, open the ⋯ menu on a wedding's card and click Download backup. You get a .json file with your guest list and every seating plan. It's a record for your own files: Lovely Seating can't import or restore it. To go back to an earlier version, use version history instead.

Working in two tabs or on two devices

You can open a wedding in several tabs or on several devices. Only one copy can edit at a time; the others are view-only and refresh about every 20 seconds. To edit somewhere else, click Request edit and hand over, or close the editing tab. An older copy can never overwrite newer changes.