History view

The History view displays previous edits to the resource definitions, configurations, and groups.

The History view displays the changes made to the highlighted resource definition, configuration, or groups. To display the history of configurations or groups in the History view, right-click a configuration or group and click Show History.

Menu showing the options New, Show history, show all groups, show all resources, clean up and search.

The information is organized into eight columns:
Revision Time
Shows the date and time of changes made to the resource definition. You can click a date entry in this column to display the change properties in the Properties view.
Resource Name/After
When the row is collapsed the resource name only is displayed. If you click the plus sign to expand the row the value of the resource attributes after the change is displayed.
Resource Type/Before
When the row is collapsed the resource type only is displayed. If you click the plus sign to expand the row the value of the resource attributes before the change is displayed.
Group
Shows the group name.
User Name
Shows the user who made the change and the change made to the data.
Command
Shows the command that was used to make the change, for example, rename, update, delete.
Change Package
Shows the change package that was used to make the change.
Scheme
Shows each entry in the journal for the selected objects.

You can link to a selection using the synced icon, two arrows one on top of the other pointing in opposite directions, top arrow left and bottom arrow right. icon. To preserve the current history view when further resource definition selections are made, click the icon again to unlink the view.

Restore: You can restore resource definitions, that have been changed, in the history view. Select an entry in the history view, right-click to display the menu and click Restore. The resource definition is restored to the values before the change that you have selected, as shown in the "Resource Type/Before" column.

If you Restore an entry that has been deleted the resource definition is re-created. If you Restore a create entry the resource definition values are restored to the values when the resource definition was first created.

The Restore option is not currently available for Rename, Add or Remove entries.

Screen Capture of the History view showing the menu opened using a right-click on the revision time. The menu options are Open, Restore, Delete, Find current version, dependencies, Find. The greyed out or unavailable options are Install, Add to Group, and Remove from Group.

Set Date Range: You can set a date range that applies to the History view. Click Set date range and the Set Date Range window is displayed. You can select the date range either from the Earliest entry and to Latest entry, or you can set the dates using the calendars or the editable date and time fields shown in the following screen capture.

Screen capture of the Set Date Range window that displays a From Calendar and a To Calendar.

Select Filters: You can filter the results shown in the History view, click the View Menu icon screen capture showing the view menu icon and select Select Filter(s) in the view menu.Screen capture of the view menu, options are set date range, apply filters, and clear filter.

Hover over Select Filter(s) and the menu of filters is displayed. You can use one or more of the filters to define your History view.

Screen capture of the Select Filter's menu, Name, Type, Group, Command, User ID, Change Package and Scheme.

When you select a type of filter, a search field is added to the History panel toolbar. You can select more than one filter.

A screen capture of the History view showing the view menu with the Select Filter(s) menu selected. The check marks identify the filter fields currently displayed in the view.

You can also use the equal or not equal option for the filters on the History view toolbar using the Set operator toggle icon. In the following example, the Group filter is not equal and the User ID filter is equal.

History toolbar showing is and is not options available.

The Group by Date toggle icon group by date toggle icon groups the history information in the following order:

You can also sort the columns if you click the column name.

History view grouped by date. The groups are: this week, older than this month, and older than this year.