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Display contents of the version

In the context menu of the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view, choose View Changes .

Download the contents of the version

During a download, the content of a version on the server is copied to the local file system (provided that this file has been synchronized before. More information: Synchronizing a DC in a Local File System ).

To download the contents of the version, in the context menu of the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view, choose Download .

Note

The content of the version is downloaded only if it was changed on the server since the last upload, or the resource does not exist in the client workspace.

Force upload of the version content

To force-upload the contents of the version, in the context menu of the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view, choose Forced Upload .

Note

The content of the current version is uploaded to the Design Time Repository (DTR) server without checking whether the content has been changed.

Locate the resource in the repository browser

In the context menu of the open version visible under the activity in the Open Activities view choose Show In Repository Browser .

Upload the contents of the version

During an upload, the content of the activity is stored on the server without checking in (and thus closing) the activity. To upload the contents of the version, in the context menu choose Upload on the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view. The contents of the current version are uploaded to the server.

Note

An upload is executed only if the content of the local file system has been changed since the last update.

View changes in a version

In the context menu of the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view choose View Changes . If there are no differences between the current version and the latest version of the resource in the repository, an appropriate message is displayed.

Otherwise the differences are displayed in the diff tool specified.

Procedure

Displaying the Version Graph of the Resource

To view the version graph of the resource, in the context menu of the resource visible under the activity in the Open Activities view, choose Show Version Graph . The version graph is displayed in the Version Graph view of the Design Time Repository perspective.

There are several kinds of information available.

To display

In Context Menu Choose

Compare of the two versions of a resource

Select the two versions to be compared. In the context menu, choose Compare versions.

Contents of a version from the version graph

On a version of a resource on the version graph, in the context menu choose View Content .

Displaying activity details

On a version of a resource on the version graph, in the context menu choose View Activity Details to display the details of the activity in whose context the version was created.

Displaying the difference between two versions of a resource

On a version of a resource on the version graph in the context menu, choose View Changes. The changes made in this version are displayed.

Version graph of a resource

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