Move through saved takes from the node card, properties sidebar, or fullscreen preview and make the version you are viewing the node’s active downstream result.
Where: A generated node card, selected-node sidebar, or fullscreen result preview
Key ideas
- One active version: The card, sidebar, and fullscreen preview all commit through the same restore path. Paging is not a temporary preview: the chosen take becomes the active node result and propagates downstream.
- Three navigation surfaces: Use previous/next arrows and the version menu on the card, the Versions row in the properties sidebar, or the shared fullscreen carousel.
- Fullscreen keyboard control: Left Arrow and Right Arrow change versions while a preview is open; Escape closes the image/video lightbox. Arrow handling wins over canvas nudging while the overlay is active.
- Live page versions: HTML, Motion, Code, section, and other live-page previews rebuild from the restored draft. The overlay follows the selected page version after the first navigation action.
Steps
- Run a node at least twice so its generation history contains more than one result.
- Use the card arrows for one-step changes, or open the version counter to compare the saved grid and choose a take.
- With the node selected, use the sidebar Versions row when you need a larger history strip and asset actions.
- Open the result fullscreen and use the on-screen arrows or Left/Right Arrow keys to compare without closing the preview.
- Confirm the intended version is active before running a dependent node; changing versions updates the value that leaves the source node.
What the fullscreen carousel covers
- Images and video in the standard lightbox.
- Audio, 3D models, PDF/records, and composition output in the media preview.
- HTML/Motion/Code and other live pages.
- Batch results, which can wrap from the last item to the first.
Version changes are graph changes
Selecting an older take restores the node data behind that result. This keeps the visible preview, the card, the properties sidebar, and downstream sockets from disagreeing about which output is current.
Troubleshooting
Arrow keys move a canvas node instead of the preview
Click the fullscreen preview so it is the active surface and ensure focus is not inside an input, textarea, select, or editable text field.
A web preview briefly shows the earlier page
Wait for the restored draft slices to recompose. Live-page version navigation follows the restored build inputs rather than treating the first snapshot as final.