Project History

Project History provides a simple interface to record comments when saving an Ion project. This feature is intended for project developers who want to keep a manual changelog for their Ion projects. It’s particularly helpful if multiple project developers are editing a single project file.

Project History is enabled by default by the Save Project History checkbox. Unchecking this box will turn off this feature but will not delete any comments already logged to Project History. With Project History enabled, a prompt will be displayed during every save operation where project changes are detected (a.k.a., a “dirty” project). This will occur when performing Save Project, Save Project As, or Start Test Configuration, as all three trigger the save function.

Comments are entered as standard text with no limits on characters or line breaks. A version number, time stamp and the user name of the currently logged in user are also recorded with the comment. Clicking OK will commit this text and related data to the Project History. Clicking Skip will save the project without comments. Unchecking the “Show this dialog …” box is the equivalent of unchecking the Save Project History checkbox on the Project History screen. The checkbox selection will be applied by clicking either Skip or OK.

The following shows the results of two save operations with comments entered for each one.