Where can I see who created an element or view?

[Yost67]

I want to see who created an element or view (and its creation date and time). I expected it to be shown in the Properties pane, under Properties. But it isn't. I cant's seem to find it anywhere else. Is it shown somewhere in the Archi interface?

[Phil Beauvoir]

Hi, sorry, but this information is not tracked and recorded in Archi. In coArchi one can track overall changes for a commit in the History tab.

[Yost67]

Thanks, Phil.

Am I correct in seeing that in the coArchi History tab, only the change notice during commit is logged with a user? I do not seem to be able to see what new elements are added with a commit. Right?

[Phil Beauvoir]

Thanks, Phil.

Am I correct in seeing that in the coArchi History tab, only the change notice during commit is logged with a user? I do not seem to be able to see what new elements are added with a commit. Right?

Yes, that's correct.

[Alberto]

Not exactly answers the question but someone posted on topic=1416 a script that displays the history of a view as part of the HTML report. If you publish HTML reports on the regular, it won't tell you who made the change, but at least when a view changed.  It's the closest thing I've seen to a historical track aside from diving into GIT.

[romuald]

I use notes in view to have the date and the author or the changer of the view (properties of the view).
I wrote a little script which is updating the properties with the current date and bend it to CTRL+S (the script is also saving the model)

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//Script to put date of the day in the property "Date de mise à jour"


model.save(); // save the model, you can set a short key to CTRL+S

// Get current date
var currentDate = currentDate || new Date();

let Month = currentDate.getMonth() + 1;
let myName = "Romuald RICHARD";

try{
var view = selection.filter("archimate-diagram-model").first();

// Create a new note and set its text
view.prop("Date de mise à jour", currentDate.getDate() + "/" + Month + "/" + currentDate.getFullYear());
view.prop("Auteur", myName);
console.log("Date changée pour " + view.name);

}catch(err)
{
var elem = selection.filter("element").first();
// Create a new note and set its text
elem.prop("Date de mise à jour", currentDate.getDate() + "/" + Month + "/" + currentDate.getFullYear());
elem.prop("Mise à jour par", myName);
console.log("Date changée pour " + elem.name);

var view = elem.view;
view.prop("Date de mise à jour", currentDate.getDate() + "/" + Month + "/" + currentDate.getFullYear());
view.prop("Auteur", myName);
console.log("Date changée pour " + view.name);

}
console.log(currentDate.toString());

[romuald]

More elegant script which is working with anything :

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//Script to put date of the day in the property "Date de mise à jour"
// and Author in "Auteur"

// Get current date
var currentDate = currentDate || new Date();

let Month = currentDate.getMonth() + 1;
let myName = "Romuald RICHARD";

$(selection).each(function(concept) {
concept.prop("Date de mise à jour", currentDate.getDate() + "/" + Month + "/" + currentDate.getFullYear());
concept.prop("Auteur", myName);
console.log("Date changée pour " + concept.name);
    });

model.save(); // save the model, you can set a short key to CTRL+S