ProVision - Carry History from KE Repository to Local Repository so you can run Change Log Report

[#1]

Currently when we check out objects from the KE server to our local notebook, it only shows the current date as the "Create Date", "Date Updated" as it was added to our local repository. This does me no good when trying to run a comparison for the previous week to see who in our shared repository updated what, or just to see who was the last person to update a given workflow. The Check-out process needs to carry the collective, accumulated History from the KE as each person updated the workflows (and other models) as they checked the objects back in. The tools need to be updated to really support a multi-developer environment within a larger system development team to provide good Change Control information.

I'd need to have a report (preferably extractable to Excel) that looks somewhat like the Catalog to indicate high-level which workflows (or other models) were added, updated, deleted, by who, when, etc., so that we can pass along the information to other development and requirements teams as part of an overall Change Management Solution. It might be nice to drill into see details about what was changed on the models, but right now I just need the high-level summary information with cumulative records, so I can filter on date fields (changed, added, deleted - or even if in one field "Last Update" to represent the 3 actions, if there was a tag of the action type).

The Comparison tool identifies what changed between two notebooks (2 named versions of a notebook or 2 PVW files), but only as a selectable list of objects. This doesn't appear to have a way to export the results into an Excel (or other) format that I can provide to others.

This would also be helpful when maintaining two different instances of a notebook (1-base product solution, 2-client specific version) where you need to keep replicate changes between the two notebooks. It's better to see a list of the changes since a given date to aid in planning the reconciliation between the two notebooks.

[#2]

I don’t know how much this will help, however from my experience with the tool (for more than 6 years now) I have found a workaround–

Get in to KE webadmin- and the dig the history. It gives a good (detail) view of when what was added / created and by whom.

Good Practice: - run the search based on Notebook – e.g. select the specific notebook and in other areas select all options – with this kind of selection you can see at details of number of check in / outs done for selected period. When clicked on respective check in / out link – the next page shows what was checked out (when, by whom) and what was added to that.

Agree, that the dates (in the details view) are no where helpful to trace back changes.

[#3]

Yeah, I know I can manually dig through the KE webadmin history to find something specific, and it would even work well enough if there was a way to export it to Excel or some report format. I'm trying to get to a relatively easy way to export an aggregate report for one Notebook, so we can monitor it weekly across a large team (12+ folks) all working in the same notebook. We want to use this to support our Change Control process...