History view
This view shows all revisions of the selected component, which are present in the derivation path of your Activity VRC.
This figure shows the revisions of a session that was selected in the Activity Explorer:
Revisions can exist for these components:
- Domain
- Function
- Label
- Library
- Menu
- Message
- Question
- Report
- Session
- Table
Columns
This table shows the columns in the view:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| VRC | A tree structure that shows this
information:
For sessions and tables, separate revision numbers are stored for the session or table itself and for the corresponding UI script or DAL script. You can expand the component type node to view the corresponding script revisions. See the previous figure. The other components have only one revision number. If you expanded a session or table node, the shortcut menu items are only enabled if a script is selected. |
| Revision | The number of the revision. |
| User | The user that created the revision. |
| Check In Date/Time | The date the revision was created. |
| Revision Text | The revision text that describes the functionality of the changed software component. |
If the text in a column does not fit in the column, hover over the text. A tooltip with the complete text is displayed. Click inside the tooltip, or press F2, to view the text in a dialog box.
Toolbar
This table shows the most important toolbar buttons:
| Button | Description |
|---|---|
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Refresh
Refreshes the contents of the view. |
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Link with Editor and
Selection
When enabled, the view shows the history for the resource of the active editor or of the active selection. |
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Pin this History View
When enabled, pins the view and its contents. Any new requests for history open a new instance of the History View. |
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Show Previous Histories
When enabled, you can select a resource, for which a history has been viewed in the past, from a drop-down menu. This button is disabled when the History view is opened for the first time. |
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Expand All
Expands all categories. |
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Collapse All
Collapses all categories. |
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Checkout to
current
Checks out the component and updates it to the selected revision. |
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Compare
This button is only enabled if two items are selected. Opens the Compare view where you can view the differences between both revisions. |
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Compare To Local
This button is only enabled if one item is selected. Opens the Compare view where you can view the differences between the selected revision and the local version. |
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Show revision details
Opens the selected item. Double-clicking an item has the same effect as this command. |
Shortcut menu
Right-click on a selected item to open a shortcut menu. The commands in the menu are also present in the toolbar. See the description of the toolbar buttons.