Enhanced Metadata Tracking in a Change Management System

摘要

A change management system generates change records corresponding to changes to tracked documents, and stores a master control file comprising metadata records that respectively correspond to the tracked documents and which comprise a tracked metadata field and a time field. Responsive to detecting that a change to a given document is of a predefined type, the tracked metadata field in the corresponding metadata record is modified, and the time field in that metadata record is updated accordingly. In response to a problem event, it is determined that the problem event relates to the given document, and, based on the time field, a subset of the change records is selected. Each change record in the subset corresponds to the given document. A problem change record is identified from the change records in the subset, and used to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
generating change records corresponding to changes to documents tracked by a change management system; storing a master control file comprising one or more metadata records, each metadata record respectively corresponding to one of the tracked documents and comprising a tracked metadata field and a time field; responsive to detecting that a change to a given document within the tracked documents is of a predefined type:
modifying the tracked metadata field in the metadata record that corresponds to the given document;updating the time field in the metadata record that corresponds to the given document with a time that corresponds to the modifying of the tracked metadata field; in response to a problem event:
determining that the problem event relates to the given document;selecting, based on the time field in the metadata record that corresponds to the given document, a subset of the change records, each change record in the subset corresponding to the given document;identifying a problem change record from the change records in the subset;using the problem change record to revert the given document to a state previous to the problem event.