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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 22, 2022

Ability to discard library item changes

Goal

The idea is to have a clear and correct history of the library item changes.


Current functionality

Imagine that the developer makes an unwanted change to the library item. The developer then chooses the undo option and undoes those changes. However, the time of the last change and the user of the last change is now updated. This makes no sense since no effective change was done.


Cause

When developer makes the change, the Process Designer automatically saves the change. Then, when developer undoes the change, another save is initiated.


Proposed functionality

  1. Stop saving until save is clicked or item is closed
    Since the library item is locked when developer makes initial change, and the lock is not released until developer clicks save, I see no harm into postpone saving changes until developer closes the artifact or until developer chooses the save option.

  2. Add discard changes button
    Another button "discard changes" could be between before (left of) or after (right of) the "save" button and it's functionality would be to discard the changes made after the last save (since beginning of the lock) and to unlock the library item .

Idea priority Medium