Maintenance Skip Columns Registry entry
Specifies fields to skip when comparing a maintenance record with a current record.
Vitalware provides functionality to enable certain fields to be skipped when a maintenance record is being compared against the current record. This means that differences between records in the fields to be skipped will not appear on the Maintenance tab. This is useful when there are fields in a database that will naturally be different from record to record, but have no bearing on the record's state of maintenance.
Usage
This Registry entry can be assigned to users and groups:
Key | User | User | Group | Group | Group | Group |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key 1 | User | User | Group | Group | Group | Group |
Key 2 | user | user | group | group | Default | Default |
Key 3 | Table | Table | Table | Table | Table | Table |
Key 4 | table | Default | table | Default | table | Default |
Key 5 | Maintenance Skip Columns | |||||
Value | column;column;... |
User | user | Table | table | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
User | user | Table | Default | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
Group | group | Table | table | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
Group | group | Table | Default | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
Group | Default | Table | table | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
Group | Default | Table | Default | Maintenance Skip Columns | column;column;... |
Examples
The modification fields on the Admin tab of any module will certainly differ between the current record and its maintenance record, however these fields do not affect the record's state of maintenance and should be skipped when comparing a maintenance record with a current record:
Key | Setting |
---|---|
Key 1 | Group |
Key 2 | Default |
Key 3 | Table |
Key 4 | Default |
Key 5 | Maintenance Skip Columns |
Value | AdmDateModified;AdmTimeModified;AdmModifiedBy |
It is of little use to notify users that the SummaryData field has changed, so it is skipped with this entry:
Key | Setting |
---|---|
Key 1 | Group |
Key 2 | Default |
Key 3 | Table |
Key 4 | Default |
Key 5 | Maintenance Skip Columns |
Value | SummaryData |