Doc24: Changing Perspective

Title: Changing Perspective

Traction's perspective feature is a seldom-used but very powerful capability that allows you to see what labels were present at a given time in the past. With the perspective feature, you can:

rewind to a given point in time, considering only the label changes that took place before that time, or more generally
restrict the range of time from which label changes are in effect.

Once you've set your perspective, you'll see the state of labels was or would have been if only those label changes performed during the perspective time period were considered. This allows you to answer questions such as, "What was on the Engineering project's to-do list on January 1, 2005?" Perspective effectively ignores all changes to labels that happened outside of the specified range of time. When used in conjunction with the time slice (i.e., navigating by date), this is an especially powerful feature.

When you've changed your perspective, standard Traction skins include a reminder at the top of the view:

The commands to change perspective are detailed in the Changing Perspective with the Rapid Selector topic. The command used to reach the example view pictured above was
/perspective 2000jan1 - 2005dec31

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