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Using the Authors Attribute

To support version control for the contents of your KB, system-defined definition classes include the Authors attribute. The Authors attribute shows the login account name of the person who last edited this item interactively and the date and time when the edit occurred.


G2 updates an item's Authors attribute by inserting into it the G2 login name and the current time and date of the most recent interactive edit of the item. If developers do not login to your KB, G2 appends the username associated with each developer's operating-system login account.

You can edit the existing text of an Authors attribute, and you can add your own entries.

To update an item's Authors attribute:

This is the default setting. G2 updates the Authors attribute only when you interactively edit an item of one of these classes.


Tip: Because the contents of an item's Authors attribute are editable, it might be appropriate to use configurations to restrict access to it by other developers and by your application's end users. Chapter 7, Configurations describes how to configure interactive and programmatic access to item attributes.

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