Change History

This feature enables an Appfarm developer to view the change history of a View, UI component, Action, or Action Node in Create. The history includes all inserts, deletes, moves, and updates for the element being inspected.

Beta Period

This feature is currently in Beta and available on all subscription tiers. After the Beta period, usage will depend on your subscription tier.

Overview

Change History can be viewed by right-clicking any View, UI Component, Action or Action Node and selecting View History, as shown in the image below. This will open a list of the most recent changes made to the element, indicating what change was made, who made it and when it was made.

Right-clicking any View, UI component, Action or Action Node will open this menu to View History

Good to know Only changes made after enabling this feature will be available in the history. A maximum of 100 entries are shown per element.

Change History Dialog

  1. Indicates the name of the component being viewed, and the name of the View it is in.

  2. The first name of the user who made the change, and when it was made. Hover to display the full name and email of the user, and the full date and time of the change.

  3. Indicates that an entry can be expanded. Applicable for changes of types Move and Update. Expand to view details about the change.

    Expanded view of Change History entry, showing the old and new value of the updated property
  4. Toggle to show or hide the history of the children of this component. In the dialog shown above, the history of all components placed inside the Container is shown. This is toggled on as default.

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