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View History in a Property Editor

You can view the history for a specific object in the History tab of a property editor. Historical information can be traced for Entities, Attributes, Tables, Columns, Views, and Cached Views.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the property editor for an Entity, Attribute, Table, Column, View, or Cached View and click the History tab.

   The following fields display:

   Event

   Displays the history events that you have selected to track for the model or object.

   Description

   Displays the description of the event.

   Source Path

   Displays the source of the object. The Source Path column is empty for the Create event. Source Path is formatted as follows:

   $ModelPath\<$ModelName>\$EntiryName\$AttributeName 
   

   $ModelPath is the path for a model in the local computer or the path for a Mart model in the Mart Server.

   Comment

   Displays the notes entered by the user. Click the Edit icon to add comments.

   Date Created

   Displays the date and time the event was created.

   Created By

   Displays the name of the user that created the event.

   The following history information is also tracked, but it is not visible on the History tab. It is included in the XML file when you save a model to XML.

   SourceId

   Specifies the Long Id of a source object.

   SourceShortId

   Specifies the Short Id of a source object.

   HistoryId

   Specifies the Long Id to identify the current history item.

2. To add comments for the history information, click the Edit icon and enter text in the Notes Editor.

   The text displays in the Comment column.

3. To delete a history record, click the Delete icon.

   You can delete a history record, but you cannot undo the delete action.

4. Click Close.

   The property editor closes.