Why does the Work Item History display "Omitting overlong change details"?

0	Ralf Moser (1●1●1) \| asked Sep 13 '16, 9:53 a.m. As of late we see in some Work Item the message “Omitting overlong change details” in the History. Where is this coming from? How can I access the missing historical data? How can I avoid this?

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Kevin Ramer (4.5k●8●178●197) | answered Sep 13 '16, 2:31 p.m.
edited Sep 13 '16, 2:43 p.m.

Suppose your work item has Large Text or HTML attribute. It is possible to change only a few characters of the attribute value, but the history may be filtering that down.

As an example, I support many projects that interact with IBM RETAIN. The text record of a PMR can exceed 32k and every update to that PMR updates the text...

Nothing is missing, it's just suppressed.

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Ralf Moser (1●1●1) | answered Sep 14 '16, 5:42 a.m.

Looks like that you face the same problem. Hopefully this is the case and no data loss was happening.

But still the most important question is: How can we solve this? How is it possible to get this information which changes are done?

Do we need to open a PMR? Or is there a workaround solution?

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Kevin Ramer commented Sep 14 '16, 9:06 a.m.

I seem to recall that there was a means to expose this when the item was viewed. In what I see only 1 of the many attributes changed is suppressed and it is of type Large String.

I could not find any description of this in looking at the "New & Noteworthy" sections back to v4. I doubt PMR would help. Though maybe some of the real experts will weigh in....

0	permanent link Jayasimha K S (13●3●5) \| answered Sep 29 '16, 9:05 a.m. edited Sep 29 '16, 9:29 a.m. Yes. Still the main question of how to see these "Omitted Overlong change details" in the audit history remains. Why raising a PMR doesn't help? Is there any other possibility?

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Stefan Oblinger (170●1●12) | answered Jun 21, 3:29 a.m.

The audit history can be accessed with APIs like:

- Plain Java

- Reportable REST

Using Reportable REST, the history of the Description attribute of a certain Work Item can be retrieved with following call:

https://HOST:PORT/ccm/rpt/repository/workitem?fields=workitem/workItem[id=WORKITEMID]/itemHistory/(modified|description)

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