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Hierarchy Versioning

Changes made to the hierarchy structure and the relationship across different reporting periods are versioned. Changes made to user assignments and link target attributes are not versioned. Structure changes are versioned. Figure 4 shows an example of hierarchy versioning.

Figure 4. Versioning Example

Attributes of a link target are not versioned. As shown in Figure 5, if the owner of Phone1 changes from Joe to Susan, the information that Joe has owned Phone1 in the past will be lost.

Figure 5. Link Target Attributes