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Creating and Managing Project History Tags

This article describes how to create and manage tags, navigate your project history, and reference any project commit (to share for review or to quickly view a timeline of the project's various design stages that you can quickly select from).

You can create the tag in Altium Designer or in the Altium 365 Web interface.

You may do the following to create a tag in Altium Designer:

  • Connect to the workspace
  • Open the online project
  • Right-click on "Project," then click "History & Version Control," followed by "Show File History."
  • Click "…" on any commit tile, then click "Create Tag."
    Fig.1 - Create Tag
    Fig. 1 - Create Tag
Fig. 2 -  Tag Created
Fig. 2 -  Tag Created

Another option is to create a tag directly from the "History & Version Control" menu by clicking "Create Tag." This will create a tag on the latest commit.

Fig. 3 -  "History & Version Control” menu
Fig. 3 - "History & Version Control” menu

Tags in Releases

When you release the project to the server, the commit used for output generation will automatically be marked with a tag.

Fig. 4 - Tag in Release
Fig. 4 - Tag in Release

You may do the following to create a tag in Altium 365:

  • Open the project in the Web Viewer
  • Go to the History page iv
  • Create a tag by clicking the "..." menu on any commit
Fig. 5 - Create a tag by clicking the “...” menu on any commit
Fig. 5 - Create a tag by clicking the “...” menu on any commit

Aside from simply creating a tag, you can do a few other things with them that are quite helpful. For example, you can:

Search for a tag

In the search bar, you can enter the partial or full name of the tag, and it will highlight the commit containing this name.

Fig. 6 - Search for a tag
Fig. 6 - Search for a tag

Open a snapshot

If you open a snapshot tagged in the commit, it will open in the Web Viewer. The tag will be referenced at the top of the page, and you can view and comment on this project version.

Fig. 7 - Open a snapshot
Fig. 7 - Open a snapshot
Fig. 8 - Snapshot tagged
Fig. 8 - Snapshot tagged

Commenting on a specific tagged version

This feature allows you to open the tagged version in the Altium 365 Web Viewer. You can comment on this version, and all comments will be associated with this tag. That way, users can use the tagged version for design review. Since it will contain separate comments for this specific version, there will be no need to mark comments with special text to highlight their necessity for review.

Fig. 9 - Commenting in a specific version that is tagged
Fig. 9 - Commenting in a specific version that is tagged

Placing comments on tagged design snapshots will mark them with a special label that you can view when you review the latest version of the project "in progress."

Fig. 10 - Tagged design snapshot comment
Fig. 10 - Tagged design snapshot comment

Rename or delete tags

You can easily remove or rename tags by clicking the "..." menu on any commit.

Fig. 11 - Rename or delete tags
Fig.11 - Rename or delete tags
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