Recording Snapshots
You can save a reference to a particular commit in a repository by recording a snapshot. You may, for example, find snapshots useful when:
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You have reached a stage in your modeling workflow where a collection of model versions and file versions on a branch have reached a finished state. Via the snapshot, you can easily find all these versions in the future.
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You repeatedly want to browse in the database based on how it looked at the time of the commit. See Searching in Snapshots and Commits.
Recorded snapshots are shown under the Snapshots node in The Databases Tree. Click Show () in the Databases windows toolbar and select Items to see the correspondingly recorded item versions.
Click Snapshot () in the Repository section of the Home toolbar to open The Record Snapshot Dialog Box. When The Model Manager Window is focused and the searched location is a branch, the latest versions will be recorded. The same is true when The Databases Window has focus and a node in a branch subtree is selected.
Snapshots
The Record Snapshot Dialog Box
The Location field shows the database, repository, and branch where the snapshot is recorded. The Date field shows the time of the corresponding commit that will be referenced by the snapshot.
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Write a name for the new snapshot in the Name field.
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You can set up permissions for the new snapshot in the Permissions field. This field is only shown if connected to a server database via a Model Manager server. See Granting Permissions.
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Click OK to record the new snapshot.
The recorded snapshot appears as a new child node to the Snapshots node in The Databases Tree.