Viewing process history

You can see the history of changes to the process of a project area or a team area.

About this task

When you create a project area or team area, the History page is updated to show the initial process settings for the project area or team area. You can expand the Process Specification entry to see the source XML code for the full process specification. When you make changes to the process, the History page is updated to show those changes. The changes are listed in chronological order with the most recent changes appearing at the top of the page.

Table 1 lists the changes that are shown and those that are not shown for project areas. Some changes are shown only as part of the entries for process specification XML changes.

Table 1. Changes shown in project area History page
Changes to these items are shown	Changes to these items are shown only in the Process Specification entry of the History	Changes to these items are not shown
Project area name, summary and description	Permissions	Categories
Process name, summary, and description	Work items configuration	Mail templates
Team area hierarchy	Team invitation Email template	Process description
Process sharing		Releases
Members and role assignments		Social network
Administrators
Associations
Attachments
Timelines, iterations, and iteration types
Defined roles
Preconditions and follow-up actions
Access Control
Process specification XML

Table 2 lists the changes that are shown and those that are not shown for team areas. Some changes are shown only as part of the entries for process specification XML changes.

Table 2. Changes shown in team area History page
Changes to these items are shown	Changes to these items are shown only in the Process Specification entry of the History	Changes to these items are not shown
Team area name, summary and description	Permissions	Timeline associations (this appears in the history of the parent project area)
Members and role assignments		Process description
Administrators
Attachments
Defined roles
Preconditions and follow-up actions
Process Customization XML

Procedure

Navigate to the Project Areas page in the administrative web interface. See Logging in for project administrators and team leads (web).
In the list of active project areas, click a project area to open it in the project area editor. To see a the process history for a team area, navigate to the team area in the Team Area Hierarchy section.
Click History.
As the following figure shows, the History page shows the history of changes to the project area or team area process.
To see the most recent changes in the process specification source, click Show Details next to the Process specification entry.
For example, the following figure shows that a new role named Intern was added. Entries in green indicate that something has been added or changed. Entries in pink indicate that something was deleted.