Checking Out an Earlier Iteration
It may become desirable to revert to an earlier design for a CAD document. You can use the Iteration History of the latest iteration of the object to identify an earlier iteration, navigate to its information page, and initiate a checkout. In general, you can initiate the checkout of a non-latest iteration from the same places you would initiate the checkout of the latest iteration. Exceptions are the row-level check-out actions available in places such as the workspace page, the workspace Edit Attributes page, and the Check In page.
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The checkout of an earlier iteration is not supported for Windchill part objects.
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Check out of an earlier iteration of a CAD document is supported, subject to the following conditions:
• You receive a warning that the iteration you are attempting to check out is not the latest.
• If you perform the checkout using the Check Out/Add to Workspace page, a conflict message saying an iteration other than the latest cannot be checked out is displayed in the Event Management utility. This is an overridable conflict that can be overridden using the Conflict Management utility.
• No other iteration of the object can be currently checked out. Also, when you check out a non-latest iteration, all other iterations of the object are adorned with a "checked-out" symbol to indicate that no other iterations can be simultaneously checked-out. On the
Iteration History report, to avoid confusion, only the iteration actually checked out displays the yellow checked-out-by-you symbol (
). The iteration which was latest before the non-latest checkout shows a checkmark on a gray background to indicate that it is unavailable for checkout.
• When gathering related objects of an initially selected object that is not the latest iteration, the default configuration is the As Stored configuration for the initially selected object (not Latest). This can be modified by the Windchill preference, Set Configuration for Check Out.
• Upon checking the object back in, it becomes the latest iteration. The Iteration History report records the earlier iteration it was derived from.
• When checked out, the object has both the content (only if a CAD document) and meta data of the earlier iteration. When checked in, however, the earlier iteration is assigned the life cycle state of the iteration that had previously been the latest.
• When the checkout of an earlier iteration requires overriding an overridable conflict, you need to explicitly refresh the workspace to properly view the earlier iteration.
• Checking out an earlier iteration of a CAD document to a project is not allowed.
• Checking out an earlier iteration from a project to a workspace is allowed, so long as:
◦ The version is native to the project, or is a one-off version checked out to the project.
◦ The object is not checked out by any individual.
◦ The version is not shared to the project from Windchill PDMLink.
