DXL Attribute History

Is it possible to get the history of a DXL attribute ? I've noticed that the 'Affect change dates' option on the DXL attriutes is disabled and I have realised that there is no history generated for the DXL attributes.


Pippa1 - Wed Aug 26 08:46:34 EDT 2015

Re: DXL Attribute History
Mike.Scharnow - Wed Aug 26 09:08:09 EDT 2015

No. That's against the nature of DXL attributes. DXL attributes only present a "view" on the current state of the object and will be recalculated at more or less arbitrary times.

if you need a persistent snapshot of this current state, use "Tools -> functions -> Copy attribute" to a separate attribute at certain times, e.g. before creating a baseline.

Re: DXL Attribute History
Pippa1 - Wed Aug 26 09:22:02 EDT 2015

Mike.Scharnow - Wed Aug 26 09:08:09 EDT 2015

No. That's against the nature of DXL attributes. DXL attributes only present a "view" on the current state of the object and will be recalculated at more or less arbitrary times.

if you need a persistent snapshot of this current state, use "Tools -> functions -> Copy attribute" to a separate attribute at certain times, e.g. before creating a baseline.

OK, I think I just worked that out when I had a bit more of a think about it.  Thanks.