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Edit User Notes or View Object History

The Notes tab in the object's property editor lets you view history information and view or edit user notes. In this tab, you can enter text for documentation purposes in the Notes area; the History area tracks changes made to the object on various events in the model. The following events are tracked in this tab:

• Created
• Derived
• Linked
• Transformed
• Migrated
• Reverse engineered
• Split
• Transformation resolved
• Imported from previous version
• Imported from model
• Imported using the API
• User note (added, edited, or deleted)

To edit user notes or view object history

1. Open the property editor for the object for which you want to edit user notes or view history, and select the object in the Navigation Grid.
2. Click the Notes tab and work with the following options:

   Sort

   Lets you sort the events on one of the following options:

   Creation Date Ascending

   Specifies to sort the list in the ascending order (old to new) of the creation date.

   Creation Date Descending

   Specifies to sort the list in the descending order (new to old) of the creation date.

   Modification Date Ascending

   Specifies to sort the list in the ascending order (old to new) of the modification date.

   Modification Date Descending

   Specifies to sort the list in the descending order (new to old) of the modification date.

   Note Order

   Enables the four options related to moving notes.

   Filter

   Lets you specify how to filter the list using the following options:

   All

   Specifies to show all events.

   History Only

   Specifies to show only history events.

   Notes Only

   Specifies to show only notes.

   New

   Opens the Notes editor for the object so you can enter a new user note.

   

   Deletes the selected item.

   

   Specifies to reset property inheritance for the selected item and lets you restore all the deleted notes. This option is available only in the Column Editor dialog.

   Note: The following four options related to moving the item are available only when you select Note Order for Sort Items.

   

   Moves the selected item to the top of the list.

   

   Moves the selected item up one position in the list.

   

   Moves the selected item down one position in the list.

   

   Moves the selected item to the bottom of the list.

   Edit

   Opens the Notes editor so you can edit note text for an event or existing user note.

   Event

   Displays the event for the object.

   Status

   Displays the status of the comment in the form of icon. The status can be inherited () or overridden (). This option is available only in the Column Editor dialog.

   Comment

   Displays the text of the user note.

   Migrate

   Migrates the note from the parent column if this check box is selected in the parent column. For example, suppose in a table named User, you added a note to the column User_ID and have selected the Migrate check box. When you use User_ID as a foreign key in another table, the note is displayed. This option is available only in the Column Editor dialog.

   Date Created

   Displays when the event was created.

   Created By

   Displays the user that created the event.

   Modified By

   Displays the user that last modified the event.

3. Click Close.

   The property editor closes.