Customisation of “Issue” and “Revision” Labels in Editor Interface

Hi everyone,

At Widerøe, we're currently revising our versioning conventions across manuals as part of an internal improvement initiative. Historically, we’ve used Revision as the primary versioning element, with Issue used in some cases for minor changes. However, following feedback from our national authority (CAA Norway), we’ve reviewed our practices to better align with industry standards and found that using Issue & Revision terminology—Issue as primary and Revision as secondary—makes most sense for us moving forward.

During this process, we identified a usability challenge in Web Manuals:

• The “Create New Revision” button and the associated pop-up window are fixed with the default labels “Revision name” and “Issue name”.

• These labels don’t align well with our preferred structure, and this inconsistency can cause confusion for editors during document updates.

We’d therefore like to suggest adding the ability to customise these field labels to better reflect the versioning logic used by different operators.

Having the flexibility to tailor these terms would make the editor interface clearer and reduce the risk of errors—especially for teams with custom versioning conventions.

We’d love to hear from others:

• Are you also using alternative versioning terminology?

• Would this flexibility be useful in your organisation?

• Feel free to upvote if this is something you’d support!

Thanks in advance!