Version history

Application Studio can be configured so that changes to reports and folders within a report catalog are tracked and saved by user and by object. With Get Version and Get Version Recursively, you can retrieve previous versions, for example, to review or to check the changes which have been made.

See Enabling version history.

To view the history of report and folder objects, you need Designer permission. The object history is updated when an object is checked in.

Restrictions

The repository contains properties for objects and deleted objects. If an object is deleted, it cannot be retrieved by the version history. The properties that will be retrieved are:
Folder
  • Translated name and its translated texts
  • Description
POV settings
  • Translated name and its translated texts
  • Description
  • Unique name format
  • List
  • Selection
Report
  • Translated name and its translated texts
  • Description
  • Report context
  • Spreadsheet file (report definition)
  • Report variables (name, description and persistency)
  • Report scripts (script code and language)
  • Report parameters
  • Report style
Note: Getting incompatible versions of reports can cause problems (for example, actions do not work).

See Defining actions.

Deleted objects

Deleted objects are removed from the history and cannot be retrieved. If you add an object to the repository, record entries in the history are added for each version. This also applies to POVs, report scripts and report variables.