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5.3.5 Accessing an earlier version

BSCW lets you access earlier versions of a document under version control by clicking the version number in the document’s info page or by directly entering its URL.

  • Select action menu   Info  in the action menu of the document requested.
  • The info page of the document contains a section Version History and, for a document with version branches, another section Related Branches. The tables show for each version date of creation, author, state and change description.
  • Click the version number of the version you want to read or download.

You may access an earlier version directly via its URL (see 4.9 on the URL of a BSCW object in general). For documents under version control, you append the version number to the normal URL for documents as shown in the following example:

http://your-bscw-server/bscw/bscw.cgi/d12345/report.doc?version=0.6
Note:
You cannot make any changes to older versions of a document under version control unless you branch out from the version that you want to edit (see 5.3.4) and modify the branch version.


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