To prevent unintended effects on productive (batch) reporting, Cinnamon supports the concept of drafts. A draft object is a copy of a published object that has been altered but not yet to affect production. Drafts are available on the following object types:
Report Types
Segmentations
Profiles
Figure Catalogs
Operations on draft objects
Creating or updating draft objects: | |
“Deleting” a draft object: | |
Publishing a draft object: | Publishing is possible from:
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Testing reports
To test your changes, you can run reports that consume all available draft objects (instead of their published versions). For this to happen, you have to set the “Use Draft Objects” flag (or set the parameter | |
When producing a report using draft objects, an information message is produced into the executions list of issues about all draft objects selected in this execution. |
Object metadata
Cinnamon collects metadata about your objects to help understand who and when edited an object:
creation: user & time
modification: user & time
publication: user & time
The metadata can be inspected from the UI at several places.