We are considering a change to all New Item functionality in Cradle for the Cradle-5.7 release and if you disagree with our proposed change then please tell us!

In Cradle-5.6 and all previous versions, the functionality to create new items would always create these items with an empty version number. Unfortunately, this means that if there are also baselined instances of such items (with versions 01, 02 and so on), then these new items would not appear in queries searching with owner set to LATEST, since the new items’ version number means that they are not the latest instance.

Our proposed change is to modify the New Item functionality such that new items will be created with a version number equal to the highest version number that is currently in use in any baseline, irrespective of the baselined items’ status (retired, superseded, baselined or in open baseline).

This change will affect the following operations in Cradle Toolset, Web Access and the Cradle web UIs (as appropriate):

• New Item
• New Linked Item
• New Child
• New Sibling
• New Hierarchy
• Capturing from source documents through Source Document Manager and Document Loader

If you have any objections to this change in Cradle’s behaviour, then send us an e-mail by clicking here.

1. 3SL Newsletters
2. 3SL Website
3. Need Help?
4. NASA Cradle User Symposium
5. REConf 08 Conference
6. Change to New Item Function
7. Nested Tables
8. How to Create Nested Tables
9. How to Create Multiple Row Views
10. Regular Expressions
11. Regular Expressions in Queries
12. US Price Increase
13. HP-UX Support
14. Old Versions of Cradle

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