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DICTIONARY_HISTORY

 

The dictionary_history category holds the revision history for a dictionary. Each revision is assigned a version identifier which acts as the key item for the category. Along with the version information, a text description of the revision and date of revision must be specified.

The DDL for the dictionary_history category is given in the following section.

save_DICTIONARY_HISTORY

    _category.description
;
   Attributes for specifying the revision history of the dictionary.
;

    _category.id                         dictionary_history
    _category.mandatory_code             no 
    _category_key.name                 '_dictionary_history.version'
     loop_
    _category_group.id
                                       'ddl_group'
                                       'dictionary_group'
     save_


save__dictionary_history.version

    _item_description.description
;
     A unique version identifier for the dictionary revision.
;
     loop_
    _item.name                         
    _item.category_id                    
    _item.mandatory_code                 
         '_dictionary_history.version'  dictionary_history     yes
         '_dictionary.version'          dictionary             yes
    _item_type.code                     char 
    _item_linked.child_name           '_dictionary.version'
    _item_linked.parent_name          '_dictionary_history.version'
     save_


save__dictionary_history.update

    _item_description.description
;
     The date that the last dictionary revision took place.
;
    _item.name                         '_dictionary_history.update'          
    _item.category_id                    dictionary_history
    _item.mandatory_code                 yes 
    _item_type.code                      yyyy-mm-dd
     save_

save__dictionary_history.revision      

    _item_description.description
;
     Text description of the dictionary revision.
;
    _item.name                         '_dictionary_history.revision'      
    _item.category_id                    dictionary_history
    _item.mandatory_code                 yes 
    _item_type.code                      text
     save_



John Westbrook
Thu Apr 11 06:25:55 EDT 1996