Viewing Edit Histories
WorkBench views now support item history data, so item histories can be shown in tables and exported to RTF, CSV or HTML reports, the same as all other WorkBench tables.
Change histories can be displayed in summary or detailed form, and optionally may be limited to show all changes since a particular date (specified as: yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy/mm/dd or yy/mm/dd), or limited to the most recent N changes.
Selecting Summary view shows the edits themselves, with the modifier, date, time and any comment entered by the user after the edit:
Selecting Details view shows the details of each edit, and for each edit it lists the attributes that were modified by the edit and the old and new values of each of these attributes.
This view is especially valuable when combined with a query that lists all items that have been modified since a particular date. When used in combination, the query and the change history view provide a totally comprehensive change log for all items of a particular type. Such a view could be defined as a report and referenced from the project’s phase hierarchy to make it easy for Configuration Managers to generate such views whenever required. |
