Described Object Changes in Diagrams (Header/Footer Cycle Data)
This is documentation applies to version 19.11.0 and later
When viewing the latest version of the diagram there is a choice of seeing the latest changes or what the diagram looked like when it was checked in compared to when it was last changed. If a user has the following conditions met, they will be able to see the changes toggle.
See unapproved permissions
Viewing latest version of diagram (no version in URL)
Described object changed after check-in
Always show live data is unchecked in Repository → Policies → “Always show live described object data for latest visible versions of Diagrams.”
See https://doc.igrafx.com/doc/what-makes-the-diagram-changes-toggle-appear for more information on getting toggle to show up and https://doc.igrafx.com/doc/how-to-remove-the-changes-toggle-from-the-diagram to remove the toggle.
Always Show Live Policy vs Changes Toggle
Always Live
The “Always Show Live” Policy is enabled by default. This will make it so that users seeing the diagram will see the described object changes as long as the user has see unapproved permissions, viewing latest version of diagram and one or more described object(s) changed. Review, review date, approval, approval date, endorsement, and endorsement date data in the diagram header and/or footer will still be gathered and shown to the user when this setting is enabled.
Changes Toggle
The changes toggle behaves identically expect for the cycle information in the header and/or footer. In this case the they will all be shown as No or N/A for the dates. We do not gather the cycle information when using the pending toggle
Changes view shows cycle information as “No” for cycle completion and “N/A” for the date)
