Exploring Article History with the Cross-Reference Panel
Edit history can be seen in any skin if you have Edit permission in
the project in which the article was posted (you can see the edit history
for articles you authored if you have Edit Own Articles permission in
that project). But
edit history involves updates to an article's content only. The
Cross References panel gives a timeline of all
operations that were ever performed on an article, including edits, changes
to labels, etc.
The Cross References link will appear in article details when other
articles link to it.
If the Cross References link does not appear you can type the Rapid
Selector expression /x
in the
search box to access the Cross References panel.
Map and Timeline Article History Views
The Cross References panel will appear
in the browser below the article. It provides a map view of all edits
(updates), comments, references, change labels actions, and other changes
associated with this article.
It is possible to see a map or timeline view of all cross-references
which includes such events as comments, email replies, updates, and reclassifications.
In the map view, entries earlier than the current one appear
to the left of center, while later entries appear on the right.
Entries that reference this entry appear as hollow bubbles.
Entries that this entry references appear as solid bubbles.
To see the article associated with a bubble, click on the
bubble. For example, you can click on one of the Changes Labels On bubbles
to see what happened. In this case, user named Admin
added the To Do label from the
Engineering project on May 1, 2006 at 10:51 EDT.
To show the merged timeline of all activity, click View All at the bottom of the
Cross References panel.
To see just one type of activity, click that activity from
the map view. Here's an example just showing references.
You can click on any bubble, or any line in the timeline,
to show the corresponding article in the box on top.
To close the Cross References panel, click the X icon in
the top right corner of the panel's frame.
