An obvious indication that project copy out of date with related master
Would it be possible to make it obvious in Power that project copies are based on outdated masters and project copies need to be merged with the newer master?
In advance project workflow, masters are often copied to multiple projects if one of the project copies releases to master the other project copies are based on older versions of the master. We have notifications going to appropriate persons that a master of the project copy has been updated and needs to be merged. These notifications sometimes get missed and the discrepancy isn't caught until releasing to masters when the error comes up that the master needs to be merged to the project copy.
It would be very helpful to catch the discrepancy sooner with an obvious indicator, possibly a different colored workflow icon in the document listing and/or indication of the condition on the Document pane. These are just ideas for the indicator and if something else would be better and fit the product design, that would help too.
Right now, the only way we know of to check for the discrepancy when the notification has been missed is to look at the Master and Project copies viewer of the document and check for the master revision number to be greater than the master revision number of the project copy.
An indicator on the master copy, perhaps on the document tab, would also be helpful.
I'm attaching screenshot to callout what we are discussing. My nomenclature is probably incorrect so maybe the shot will help. I cannot presently find a document with the discrepancy so calling out and existing document without, but hopefully conveying the idea.
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Kermit Vestal
- Aug 2 2022
- Future consideration
Related ideas
We recently ran into this same issue as we were unaware a second project copy even existed when we released the first project copy.
A popup dialog would have helped that notified us a second project copy existed.
Would indeed be useful to show this more prominently.
Adding the indicator to the list on the left-hand side or doing a search could be technically challenging, I need to discuss that with the developers.