The History tab lists the following events that have completed:
Promotions
Demotions
Deployments
Rollbacks
Builds (including the collection of build outputs)
Cleaning (of deployment areas)
Audit (of deployment areas)
TIP
You can use the History tab to help you plan the rollback of deployments by displaying the deployments in the order they were executed. This is the order in which they should be rolled back.
Select Hide if can't roll back to hide deployments that cannot be rolled back or non-deployment events.
The History tab has the following columns (some are hidden by default):
Name: the name of the object.
Detail:
For items: the full path name and revision of the item.
For requests: the request title.
For baselines: the description of the baseline.
Event Type: Deployment, Rollback, Build, Clean, Audit, Collect, Promotion, or Demotion.
Event Description: a brief description of the event.
Reason: a description of the transaction.
Event Result: Submitted, Executing, Succeeded, Failed, Cancelled, or Paused.
Event Date: the date and time of the transaction.
Event By: the Dimensions user who performed the operation on the object.
From Stage: the stage in the GSL where the object was promoted or demoted from.
To Stage: the stage in the GSL where the object was promoted or demoted to.
Area: the deployment area associated with the event.
Project/Stream: the project or stream associated with the event.
Product (hidden by default): the product containing the object.
Job ID (hidden by default): the ID of the job to which the event belongs.
Revision (hidden by default): the revision number (applies only to items).
Area version: when the content of a deployment area is changed Dimensions creates a new logical version of the area. This column displays the area version that was created as a result of the event.
You can hide or display any of the columns and sort the list by Event Date.
When you select a stage node in the navigation pane, event types with an associated stage or area are displayed in the content pane. For example, deployment, rollback, build, clean, audit, collect, promotion, and demotion.
When you select an area node in the navigation pane, event types with an associated area are displayed in the content pane. For example, deployment and rollback. Promotion and demotion are not associated with an area, only a stage, and are not displayed. However, any related deployments or rollbacks may be displayed if they involve the selected area.
To display more information about a request, item, or baseline, in the Name column click the object’s name.
To display details about an event’s status, in the Event Result column click Failed or Succeeded. The Status Details dialog box appears and displays information about the event.
Each event is displayed on a separate row. Some Dimensions operations generate multiple events, for example, if you deploy multiple items, a separate event is generated for each item. However, all the events for this operation belong to the same job.
When you select a row in the History tab and perform an operation, the operation affects more than the selected row. For example, if you select and rollback an item, all the items that are related to that deployment job are rolled back, and not just the selected item.
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