Archive Document Revisions (VaultAdmin)
Archive and restore document revisions.
Access this dialog box from the VaultAdmin Projects
tab.
The archive directory must be in the vault.
Documents are archived and restored to or from:
Administrators can grant users permission to archive and restore documents
from a client (see Delete, Rollback,
Archive documents on the Vault
Settings tab).
Do not
delete projects from which documents are archived. Projects contain data
that allows documents to be restored. Documents cannot be restored if
the project is deleted.
To prepare to archive document revisions:
On the Projects
tab:
Click Archive
Project.
To archive documents:
In the Archive
Document Revisions dialog box, select Archive
under Task.
Select documents from the list as described below,
then click Select.
Click Archive.
Select by date
Files
older than <n> days. For archiving, 0
includes all documents that meet the criteria by revision. Exclude documents
by increasing the number of days. For restoring, the opposite is true:
larger numbers include
more documents while smaller numbers exclude
more documents.
Select by revision
All but latest <n>
primaries, secondaries,
and tertiaries. Archive or restore
all the revisions in each category except the specified latest revisions.
For example, for 2, all but the
latest two revisions are selected, and for 0,
all the revisions are selected.
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Selections
Sort.
Click a header to sort the list by that category. The default order
is by document name and revision level. For example, click the Date
header to sort by date in ascending order. Click Date
again to reverse the order.
Manual selection. You can select
documents manually, one at a time, by clicking anywhere in the document
row. To clear a document, click the check box at the left of the document
name.
Select All, Clear
All. Click to aid in selection.
For example, if you select documents, you can click Clear
All and then select again manually or by criteria.
Show:
All, Selected, Restorable. Choose to view all the documents in
the project, or only the selected documents.
Restorable is available only for the Restore
task.
Restore
When you specify
a Restore operation, SolidWorks
Workgroup PDM
lists all the documents that have been archived from the specified
project into the specified archive folder. You cannot restore documents
listed in red. Documents in red may have been archived into the archive
folder but subsequently removed. If you replace the documents in the archive
folder, they can be restored.
To prepare to restore document
revisions:
On
the Projects tab:
Click
Archive Project.
To restore documents:
In the
Archive Document Revisions dialog
box, select Restore under Task.
Select
documents from the list as described above, then click Restore.
Under Selections,
click Restorable to filter out
documents that cannot be restored.