Create a New Version
Altair Drive Desktop provides a version control system which enables you to create a new version, track changes and collaborate with other team members.
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Click Open MyFiles on the Home
tab.
Your mounted files location is displayed in Windows Explorer.
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Right-click the input file, select
.
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To view the initial version and called start is created in the default
main branch, right-click the result file, select
.The Version dialog box is displayed.
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Modify the file contents and save the changes.
An asterisk (*) symbol next to the current version indicates it has uncommitted changes. It is also called the work-in-progress version.
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To create a new version, choose one of the following:
- Right-click main and select New Version
- Click New Version from the toolbar above.
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In the New Version dialog box, provide:
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Click OK.
A new version file is created.
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Click to view or hide the properties such as name,
description, author, and timestamp of the version.
Click to edit the description of the file version.
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The other actions you can perform using the version control are:
- Restore
will discard all changes made after a
selected version.Note: A warning message appears about losing the changes made from the current version to the selected previous version.
- Download the selected version to your local folder.
- New Branch create a new branch to manage specific updates independently.
- Make Current to switch to the selected version as the current version. If you make a version current, the latest you can edit it and view the previous versions.
- Restore
will discard all changes made after a
selected version.