Using the Revision Manager Tool

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The Revision Manager allows you to view, retrieve, and compare a list of the revisions of a file.

To open the Revision Manager, right-click any file, and select Origin Revision History or Converted Revision History.

The Revision Manager appears:



The Revision Manager displays the following document properties:

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Title – Not applicable in CS-Converter.

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Locked by – Not applicable in CS-Converter.

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File type – Not applicable in CS-Converter.

The Revision Manager displays the following revision properties:

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Revision number – A unique identifier assigned to the revision in the archive. This number has an internal meaning only.

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Symbolic name – The revision's symbolic name, or label, if specified.

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Check-in Date – The date this revision was created.

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Author Name – The user that checked-in this revision.

The Revision Manager dialog box allows you to perform the following:

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Sort the list by clicking the desired column header. Re-click the same column header to reverse the sorting order.

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Place your cursor over any revision in the list to view the revision change title.

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Click View Revision to view the selected revision. For more information, refer to View Revision Dialog later in this chapter.

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Click Retrieve Revision to save the selected revision to disk.

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Click Compare Revisions to view the changes between the selected revision and any other revision.

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Click Report to generate a detailed change report for the file. For more information, refer to Revision History Report in Generating CS-RCS Reports.

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Click RLOG Report to view a text-only report for the file.

When you right-click a selected version, the right-click menu appears. The right-click menu allows you to perform the following additional commands:

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Click View Revision to view the selected revision.

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Click Retrieve Revision to save the selected revision to disk.

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Click Compare Revisions to view the changes between the selected revision and any other revision.

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Click Sort by to sort the listed revisions by one of the following categories: Revision Number, Symbolic Name, Check-in Date, or Author.

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Click Reverse Order to reverse the order of the listed revisions.

The Edit Description and Edit Symbolic Name commands are not applicable in CS-Converter.