Viewing Change Control History

For every PeopleSoft Application Designer development definition in the database, you can view its Change Control history.

To view Change Control history:

  1. Select Tools, and then Change Control, and then View History.

    The History dialog box appears.

  2. Select a definition type and name.

    The Definition Name list box contains only the names of PeopleSoft Application Designer definitions that have at least one history entry. Click the Refresh button to ensure that you are viewing the most recent listing of locked definitions.

    The history table contains these columns:

    Field or Control Description

    Date

    Displays when each entry was added.

    User

    Displays who added an entry.

    Action

    Displays why a comment was entered. Five of these Action types—Lock, Informational, Unlock, Rename, and Delete—represent actions that you perform in PeopleSoft Application Designer and for which the system prompts for comments.

    Add

    Denotes an automatic history entry that PeopleTools inserts when a new definition is created. In this case, and whenever the system performs a background lock or unlock, the system does not prompt you for comments. The Comment column contains the text System Generated.

    Note: PeopleSoft Application Designer performs automatic locks and unlocks under certain situations. For example, when you rename a locked definition, that definition must be unlocked before it is renamed and then relocked afterward. Likewise, when you delete a locked definition, the definition is automatically unlocked following the deletion. The system does not prompt you for comments during any of these unlock or relock actions, but it adds corresponding history entries automatically.

    Copy

    The system adds this type of history entry automatically when a definition is copied into the current database. In this case, the Project value is the name of the copied project in the source database, and no comments are added.

    Project, Incident ID, and Comment

    Displays the project name, incident ID, and relevant comments.

  3. Double-click a row in the grid to open a history entry, if necessary.

    The History Details dialog box appears. This dialog box is a read-only version of the Insert Comments dialog box. You cannot update the information that appears in this dialog box.