You can determine whether the track changes feature is enabled by
default in the Editing page in IXIA CCMS Web, depending
on the role and, optionally, the status of the object in the assignment.
Important: Make configuration changes in a test
environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production
environment.
To configure the track changes feature:
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In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
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Locate the webroles.xml
file in the repository.
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Check out the file and open it for editing.
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Locate the
roles
element.
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Configure track changes for a specific role:
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Locate or add the following lines to configure a
role:
<role name="[role name]" status="[status]">
<option name="ForceTrackChanges">[True/False]</option>
<option name="TrackChangesDefaultValue">[On/Off]</option>
</role>
Where
[role name]
is the name of the role
as it is configured in the roles.xml file in the system/conf collection
[status]
is
the name of the status on which you want the behavior to occur.
To specify more than one status, separate them using a comma. If
the status attribute is not specified, the behavior applies to
all statuses for the object.
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Set the
ForceTrackChanges
option to:
True
if you
want the track changes feature on the Editing page in CCMS Web to be enabled at all
times.
False
if you
want users to turn on or turn off the track changes feature as
desired.
Suppose you want users with the Reviewer role to always have track
changes enabled when the objects they are editing are in either the Authoring:review or
Authoring:contribute status. You also want users with the Contributor role to have track
changes enabled by default, but allow them to turn it off. Define the roles with those
options.
<role name="Reviewer" status="Authoring:review,Authoring:contribute">
<option name="ForceTrackChanges">True</option>
</role>
<role name="Contributor">
<option name="ForceTrackChanges">False</option>
<option name="TrackChangesDefaultValue">On</option>
</role>
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(Optional) Set the
TrackChangesDefaultValue
option to:
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On
if you want the track
changes feature on the Editing page in CCMS Web to be enabled by default.
Off
if you
want it turned off by default.
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Repeat the previous step for each role that you want to
configure.
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Save, close, and check in the file.
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Inform users of the changes.
Have an administrator refresh IXIA CCMS Web Server so that users will see the change reflected
there.
The track changes feature is configured to match your definitions.