Inventory History Window

Users can view the history of updates made to a specific inventory item within a project by clicking the View History button on either the Inventory Details Tab in the Analysis Workbench or the Project Inventory Details Pane. The Inventory History window is opened, listing the updates in a grid, each row representing a specific update made to the inventory item. The updates are grouped by revision IDs, each representing a revision session—that is, group of updates that were saved together at a specific point in time.

Refer to the following topics for procedures related to this window:

• Viewing the Update History for an Inventory Item in the Analysis Workbench
• Viewing the Update History for an Inventory Item in Project Inventory

The following describes the information recorded for each update.

Attributes of Each Update Listed in Inventory History

Field/Column

Description

Revision header

Inventory updates are grouped chronologically by the revision session in which they were made, each session with its own header.

Revision ID

Identifies a single revision session consisting of one or more updates that were saved together at a specific point in time.

Revision details

The date and time at which the revision was saved and the number of updates made during the revision session.

Details of update

The following details describe each update made to the inventory item.

Date

The date and time at which the update was saved.

You can sort on this column. By default, the updates are listed in descending order by date so that users view the most recent updates first.

Event

The type of update: Inventory Created, Inventory Updated, Inventory Published, Inventory Recalled, or Inventory Reviewed.

Action

The user action that resulted in the update:

• Scan—A Code Insight project scan.
• Project Import—A Code Insight project import. This can be either a standard project import or the import performed during a project-branching process.
• Manual Analysis—A manual update made to the inventory item through the Code Insight Web UI or a REST API.
• Policy—An update to the policy profile that impacted the status of the inventory item.
• hyphen (-)—The value that defaults when the inventory was migrated from a pre-2021 R3 version of Code Insight.

User

The name of the user who performed the update. The name is hyperlinked to open an email draft addressed to this user.

If the system performed the update, the value System is displayed with no hyperlinked text.

Field

The name of the inventory field that was updated.

 

Old Value

The previous value of the inventory field. Note the following:

• The value for the URL field is hyperlinked and, when clicked, opens to the linked site on a new browser tab.
• If the value for the Description field or a notes field (such as Audit Notes, Notices Text, and others) exceeds 150 characters, a Show more... link is displayed to expand the row to show the entire text. You can then click Show less... to collapse the text.
• When you click the icon next a Component or License value, a pop-up dialog shows read-only details about that item.

New Value

The value of the inventory field after the change. Note the following:

• The value for the URL field is hyperlinked and, when clicked, opens to the linked site on a new browser tab.
• If the value for the Description field or a notes field (such as Audit Notes, Notices Text, and others) exceeds 150 characters, a Show more... link is displayed to expand the row to show the entire text. You can then click Show less... to collapse the text.

When you click the icon next a Component or License value, a pop-up dialog shows read-only details about that item.

Actions

The following buttons and icons enable you to navigate and manage the history view.

Refresh the history view.

Page controls

Move to the next or previous page or to the first or last page in the view; or enter a specific page number in the Page field.

Note that the default page size is 25 revision records. (Page size is based on the number of revisions, not updates.)

Close

Exit the Inventory History window.