Getting a version of a folder recursively

To get a version of a folder recursively:

  1. Right-click the folder in the Report Manager.
  2. Select Check In/Out > Version History.
    In the History dialog of a folder, the Get Version Recursively button is enabled. If you get a version of a folder recursively, the same version of its children will be retrieved.

    For example, if you have three versions of the parent and three versions of the children, recursively retrieving version 2 of the parent will retrieve version 2 of the children. This depends on the versions of the children having been created at the same time as the versions of the parents. This is achieved by always checking in the parent recursively.

    Note: The versions of parent and children might not match. You might have 5 versions of a child but only three of the parent. This can occur if a parent is checked in non-recursively, or if a child is checked in without recursively checking in the parent. In these cases, recursively retrieving a parent may not retrieve the versions of the children that you expect.

    If children are already checked-out when a version of the parent object is recursively retrieved, the checked-out children will not be overwritten.