Benefits of object labels and revisions

Object labeling and revisioning tools simplify application upgrades by tracking modifications, preserving object history, and enabling easy comparisons. Modify as-shipped objects directly without renaming, while automatic revisions protect changes during imports.

IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities provides a set of object labeling and revisioning tools and capabilities to enable a better approach to application upgrades. This approach is meant to simplify and reduce the time that an application upgrade process consumes, which makes it easier for you to keep up-to-date with application enhancements.

• You can easily visualize and identify which objects you modified.
• You can continue to modify your objects to suit your business needs.
• You no longer need to rename as-shipped Maximo Real Estate and Facilities objects when you want to modify them.
• The overhead of needing to rename an object before you make modifications is eliminated.
• Revisions of the objects are automatically created when you save or publish them. For instance, when you revise and publish a form, the original form is saved in a revision and is available for reference.
• Revisions store the history of an object and ensure that any changes to the object are not overwritten by other changes that are applied. When a new Maximo Real Estate and Facilities application object migration (OM) is imported, the modified object is saved in a revision.
• You can easily compare two revisions of an object or two objects with different names.

For more in-depth information on object labels and revisions, see Tracking changes to objects.