A project snapshot is a capture of an entire project at
a specific moment in time. It includes all artifacts, folder trees,
and the public tag list.
You create a project snapshot by clicking
Create a Snapshot in
the Project Details section of the sidebar. You can then look at the
contents of each artifact in the project snapshot editor. You can
also dynamically view other snapshots you have created in the snapshot
editor by clicking a box in the timeline viewer:
Important: You must have the Create/Modify
Project Snapshot
permission to
create snapshots. By default, the Project Snapshot Administrator role
has this permission, but the Administrator and Author role do not.
You might want to create a project snapshot after completing a review of specific artifacts.
When working with project snapshots, you should note the following:
- Each artifact in a project snapshot shows the contents of the
artifact at the moment the project snapshot was created.
- You cannot modify a project snapshot artifact.
- If you double click on an artifact in a snapshot, you can view
the artifact history of
the artifact. When you open an artifact that has an embedded artifact
from the same project, you will see the snapshot versions of both
artifacts.
- You can create snapshots at any date in the past - not just at
the current time.
- Snapshots can be selected from the collection editor
to set the artifact versions that appear in the collection.
To open existing snapshot, click on the snapshot name in the
Project Details section of the sidebar.