Working with Drafts

Creating or updating draft objects:
Every time you save an object, the changes are stored to a draft object. If there already existed a draft object, this draft is updated. So for every object, there can only be a single draft object.

“Deleting” a draft object:
Draft objects will be automatically deleted if you choose to “revert to last published version”

Publishing a draft object:
When publishing a draft object, the published object will be overwritten with the draft object (or created if there was no published object). After publishing there will be no draft object remaining.

Publishing is possible from:

• the list of e.g. reportTypes, where the buttons change to "publish"/"revert"

• the new view "All Objects" that currently just shows all drafts in the system and lets you select multiple draft objects and offers buttons for publish or revert

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 useDrafts to true).

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.