Take a New Snapshot
Note: This document applies to the new version of the Projects section in the Design Center. For details on how to perform the same actions in the classic version, see Managing Projects > Take a New Snapshot of a Project.
Taking a snapshot of a project is a good idea before doing exploratory work in a project, or before working in a project created by another user. Because every change in a project is auto-saved, snapshots are the only way to undo changes.
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Attention: Snapshots are taken at the project level, saving the state of all cubes that are in the project at the point in time that a snapshot is taken. If, subsequent to taking a snapshot, you create another cube in the same project and later decide to restore the project to the state captured in the snapshot, the new cube is deleted. For example, suppose that a project contains cubes C1, C2, and C3. You take a snapshot of the project. Then, as you work more in the project, you create cube C4. Later, you decide to restore the project to its state as captured in the snapshot. Because cube C4 did not exist when the snapshot was taken, restoring the project state causes cube C4 to be deleted.
Procedure
To take a snapshot from the overview page for a project:
- Choose Projects from the main Design Center navigation.
- Choose the project for which you want to take a snapshot.
- In the right part of the screen choose Snapshots.
- Optionally, enter a name.
- Choose Create Snapshot.
To take a project snapshot from the Cube Designer canvas of an open cube that is contained by a project:
- Open the cube canvas for a cube in the project you want to take a snapshot of.
- Open the Snapshots panel on the cube canvas (indicated by a camera icon).
- Select Take Snapshot from its action menu.
Results
The snapshot is added to the Current Snapshots list on the project's overview page and in the Snapshots panel.