Collecting Models and Files for Maintenance
The Versions window may be used to perform maintenance operations on a few versions belonging to the same model or file. Select the targeted versions, right-click, and then select the maintenance operation you have in mind from the context menu.
Maintenance operations that target a more complex collection of versions typically involves the following steps:
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Adding versions from the search result in the Model Manager window to the Maintenance window.
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Steps one and two may be repeated before proceeding to step three.
The sets of versions that you can add to the Maintenance window are similar to the ones available when Estimating Disk Space Usage:
A selection of versions in the Model Manager window.
All versions matching the search in the Model Manager window, independent of if all versions are currently shown in the table or if there are more results to retrieve via Show More ().
With Latest Versions for Location () selected in the Model Manager window, click Add to Maintenance () in the Maintenance section on the Database toolbar and select Item Selection () — all versions belonging to the same items, or the items’ drafts, of the current selection are added to the Maintenance window.
With All Versions in Database () selected in the Model Manager window, select Version Selection () in the Add to Maintenance menu () to add the currently selected versions to the Maintenance window. Select Search Result () in the Add to Maintenance menu () to add the current search term and applied search filters as an “implicit selection rule for versions” to the Maintenance window.
The Search Result option () is by far the most powerful one. It enables you, for example, to target:
At most one search result can be included in the Maintenance window if the search expression uses full text search words. Consider replacing the full text search words with Title, Description, and Tag filters if you want to add multiple search results.
The Search Result option () enables you to target versions in the Maintenance window without requiring you to first having to retrieve them all as separate table rows in the Model Manager window. This is useful, for example, when the versions number in the thousands.