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description: Track the history of certain fields in articles. If you have history tracking enabled, open an article and click Version to see a version history list. You can also set tracking for the article type and track the full history of an article and its versions. Article events are tracked for up to 18 months.
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# Article History Tracking (Lightning Experience)

Track the history of certain fields in articles. If you have history tracking enabled, open an article and click **Version** to see a version history list. You can also set tracking for the article type and track the full history of an article and its versions. Article events are tracked for up to 18 months.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience. <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.service_editions_reference.htm&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">View supported editions</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

The system records and displays field updates, publishing workflow events, and language versions for the primary article and any translations. When you track old and new values, the system records both values as well as the date, time, nature of the change, and the user who made the change. When you track only the changed values, the system marks the changed field as edited. It doesn't record the old and new field values. This information is available in the Version History list, and the fields are available in the Article Version History report.

Article history respects field, entity, and record-level security. You must have at least Read permission on the article type or the field to access its history. For data category security, Salesforce determines access based on the categorization of the online version of an article. If there is no online version, then security is applied based on the archived version, followed by the security of the draft version.

1. From Setup, go to the Object Manager.
2. Select **Knowledge**.
3. On the Knowledge object home, click **Edit**.
4. Check the **Track Field History** checkbox.
5. Save your changes.

Salesforce begins tracking history from that date and time. Changes made before that date and time aren’t tracked.

#### See Also

- [Article History Tracking (Salesforce Classic)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.knowledge_history_tracking.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can track the history of certain fields in articles. If you have history tracking enabled, open an article of that type and click Version to see a version history list. You can also set tracking for the article type and track the full history of an article and its versions. Article events are tracked for up to 18 months.")