Inventory History Window

Users can view the history of updates made to a specific inventory item within a project by clicking the View History button on either the Inventory Details Tab in the Analysis Workbench or the Project Inventory Details Pane. The Inventory History window is opened, listing the updates in a grid, each row representing a specific update made to the inventory item. The updates are grouped by revision IDs, each representing a revision session—that is, group of updates that were saved together at a specific point in time.

Refer to the following topics for procedures related to this window:

The following describes the information recorded for each update.

Field/Column		Description
Revision header	Inventory updates are grouped chronologically by the revision session in which they were made, each session with its own header.
Revision ID	Identifies a single revision session consisting of one or more updates that were saved together at a specific point in time.
Revision details	The date and time at which the revision was saved and the number of updates made during the revision session.
Details of update	The following details describe each update made to the inventory item.
Date	The date and time at which the update was saved. You can sort on this column. By default, the updates are listed in descending order by date so that users view the most recent updates first.
Event	The type of update: `Inventory Created` , `Inventory Updated` , `Inventory Published` , `Full Rescan` , `Inventory Recalled` , or `Inventory Reviewed` .
Action	The user action that resulted in the update: Scan—The initial scan the created the inventory item. Project Copy—A Code Insight project copy. Project Rescan—A full rescan on the project. Although a full rescan usually involves updates to project inventory, no separate records are listed for these updates in the history. Project Import—A Code Insight project import. This can be either a standard project import or the import performed during a project-branching process. Manual Analysis—A manual update made to the inventory item through the Code Insight Web UI or a REST API. Policy—An update to the policy profile that impacted the status of the inventory item. hyphen (-)—The value that defaults when the inventory was migrated from a pre-2021 R3 version of Code Insight.
	User	The name of the user who performed the update. The name is hyperlinked to open an email draft addressed to this user. If the system performed the update, the value `System` is displayed with no hyperlinked text.
Field	Either of the following: <field_name>—The name of the inventory field that was updated. You can review its previous and new value in the Old Value and New Value columns. Associated Files—Term indicating that one or more files were added to or removed from the inventory item’s list of Associated Files tab before the inventory item was saved. (No files names are listed in the Old Value and New Value fields.) Each `Associated Files` record reflects an inventory save (and thus a separate revision session). For example, if the user saved the inventory item each time a file association was added or removed, a separate `Associated Files` record in a separate revision session is added for each association update. If the user added or removed multiple file associations before saving the inventory item, a single `Associated Files` record reflecting all the association updates is added to the revision session.
Old Value	The previous value of the inventory field. Note the following: The value for the URL field is hyperlinked and, when clicked, opens to the linked site on a new browser tab. If the value for the Description field or a notes field (such as Audit Notes , Notices Text , and others) exceeds 150 characters, a Show more... link is displayed to expand the row to show the entire text. You can then click Show less... to collapse the text. When you click the icon next a Component or License value, a pop-up dialog shows read-only details about that item.
	New Value	The value of the inventory field after the change. Note the following: The value for the URL field is hyperlinked and, when clicked, opens to the linked site on a new browser tab. If the value for the Description field or a notes field (such as Audit Notes , Notices Text , and others) exceeds 150 characters, a Show more... link is displayed to expand the row to show the entire text. You can then click Show less... to collapse the text. When you click the icon next a `Component` or `License` value, a pop-up dialog shows read-only details about that item.
Actions	The following buttons and icons enable you to navigate and manage the history view.
	Refresh the history view.
Page controls	Move to the next or previous page or to the first or last page in the view; or enter a specific page number in the `Page` field. Note that the default page size is 25 revision records. (Page size is based on the number of revisions, not updates.)
Close	Exit the `Inventory History` window.