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Change History

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In the Change History tab (under Settings), you can view all the additions, updates, and deletions to the following items:

  • work items and the dependencies between them
  • resources, user calendar exceptions
  • users
  • user groups
  • custom objects

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The information is useful for tracking the last year of changes for auditing purposes and aids troubleshooting by reducing time spent locating root causes of changes and fixing issues.

Additional features include:

  • Live Mode to follow updates with automatic screen reload
  • Filtering and sorting options for locating issues quickly and easily
  • Access to changed items (by clicking)
  • Download to Excel

           

NOTES

  • Change History is also available on projects (Utilities tab > Change History) for project items. For information abut enabling access to it, click here.

  • Only fields defined in the Profile fieldset of the user will be available in Change History. Read more.

           

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How it Works

Details for each change include:

Changed On

The date and time of the change in the your local time

Changed By

The user that made the change. System denotes changes made by the system.

Change

The type of change can be Add, Update or Delete

Category

Direct - Updated by the user in AdaptiveWork (web or mobile), or via API/workflow

Indirect - Updated as a result of a Direct action. For example, changing a work item's due date can cause the expected progress field to be recalculated.

Component - Changes performed by the system that are part of another operation. For example, adding a new task will also cause the addition of a resource link for the default Owner.

System - Updated/calculated by the system. Scheduled changes such as calculation of "Expected Progress" fall into this category.

Item Type

The type of item, including work items, user etc.

Note: Shortcut additions and Custom Objects are currently not tracked in Change History.

Item

The name of the item

Related Item

If the change involves another item (such as adding a resource or a dependency to a task), you’ll see the related item displayed here.

Field Name

The display name in AdaptiveWork

Previous/New Value

The value of the field/item before and after the update

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Filtering and Sorting

Click on a column header to filter and sort the items.

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Time Zone Options

The time zone option makes it easier for users across multiple timezones to compare changes.

This is of particular use when AdaptiveWork Administrators/Power Users located in a different timezone want to assist other users and review changes in a specific timeframe.

The default is "My Current Local Time" as per your computer's current clock setting.

Live Mode

Click Live Mode to have the screen automatically refresh the Change History every 10 seconds. This is particularly useful when working with multiple monitors and testing workflows or API changes.

Live Mode deactivates after 2 minutes or whenever you manually reload the page.

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Item Details

Click the arrow to open the item details in a new tab.

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Download Excel

Click Download Excel to export the events to an Excel file.

The downloaded file includes the time zone option, column order, column filters in the view and financial permissions (yes/no) of the User performing the download.

Note: The maximum amount of rows supported is 100,000.

Previous Data

Change History starts recording changes from when this feature becomes available.

Permissions

Users with Financial Permissions can see updated financial data for a Project.

Tracking History

The last 1 year of changes are saved by the Change History report. A clean-up process runs every night at 2:00 AM (your organization’s time zone) during which items with changes older than 1 year are deleted. As a result, the last 1 year of changes for every Work Item, dependency, and resource assignment is always stored and visible from the related Project.

Work Item changes are aggregated to the related Project but they are not rolled up to parent projects or the Program.

Using Project Change History, you can select multiple Projects and generate an aggregation of all changes to all of your Projects in the last 7 days, for example.

Custom Objects

           

NOTE

This feature is in Beta  / Controlled Availability. To request early access, contact your Customer Success Manager. Planview, at its own discretion, reserve the right to accept or reject a customer request to enable a feature that is in Beta / Controlled Availability (i.e. “Beta software”) state. If a customer’s request is approved,  an addendum to the Planview agreement will be required prior to the enablement of the feature in the customer environment, to address legal terms related to the use of Beta software.

           

For custom objects, additions, updates and deletions are tracked in change history. By default, changes to custom objects are not tracked in change history, but you can turn on change history for a custom object.

           

NOTE

Related links and related items are not tracked in change history for a custom object.

           

To enable change history for a custom object

In the Edit [custom object name] dialog, turn on the Enable Change History option.

Tracking can be stopped at any time by turning the the Enable Change History option off. 

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