YellowFin Version Control for reporting

Hi Abhishek,

Thanks for reaching out to support with your question. I'm thinking you would like to see this mechanism as part of the report import process? Currently when importing old content into a newer version, I receive this message -

Is my understanding correct here?

If so, I can check with the team to see if this would be a possibility, and whether this might be an existing task or included on a bigger roadmap. I'm not a developer but it could be a tall order to implement a "report upgrader" process that could re-structure the xml file, based on the build info, I'd think it could be possible however... conversely it's possible that we already have some of that functionality in place, and it's a simply matter of getting all the specific "import issues" identified and fixed. I'll see what our overall policy on this is currently. But it does sound like I'm following here?

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Eric,

I am sorry to say, but you guessed it wrong. :)

I am talking about the version control i.e. having all the edits and historical versions (snapshots) of the project. So any moment I feel to lookup my earlier version or compare the earlier version with the latest ones, I could do that.

With this chat, I sense, this feature is not available. An integration with any version control software like TFS, SVN, Azure Repository, Git would be very helpful. Plus this might also work well with CI-CD.

Could you please take these suggestion with your development team? Hoping to see a nice upgrade in the upcoming version.

Regards,

Abhishek

Hi Abhishek,

Thanks for the reply here, I think I get here you're coming from now. I know we have ways to "restore" old versions of reports with SQL queries, here is how it works for dashboards for example -

https://community.yellowfinbi.com/topic/how-do-i-restore-an-olddeleted-dashboard

However, there's not a way to do this via the front end, and I'm thinking maybe the desired functionality here is something like -

You'd like to see a "previous versions / edits" tab in the "Report Info" popup, that allows actions like "restore" or "remove" - does this sound more accurate?

We do have this existing task, "function to restore deleted view", that partially covers this type of enhancement... does this sound like the right type of Idea that I might be able to add some additional requirements to?

https://community.yellowfinbi.com/topic/function-to-restore-a-view-report-dashboard-that-have-been-deleted

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Abhishek,

Hope things are good on your end, just wanted to check in to see if you wanted to pursue a developer request for this type of functionality?

Thanks,

Eric