Accessing an earlier version

BSCW lets you access earlier versions of a document under version control by clicking the version number in the document’s info page or by directly entering its URL.

•      Select action  Information    General  in the action menu of the document requested.

•      The info page of the document contains a section Version History and, for a document with version branches, another section Related Branches. The tables show for each ver­sion date of creation, author, state and change description.

•      Click the version number of the version you want to read or download.

You may access an earlier version directly via its URL (for accessing BSCW ob­jects via their URL in general see 4.11 URLs for objects in workspaces). For documents under version con­trol, you append the version number to the normal URL for documents as shown in the following example:

http://your-bscw-server/bscw/bscw.cgi/d12345/report.doc?version=0.6

Note: You cannot make any changes to older versions of a document under version control un­less you branch out from the version that you want to edit and modify the branch version.