Collaborator can pack project reviews to an external ZIP archive.
You can use this feature to keep historical records of the project reviews (for instance, because of regulatory requirements), or to export review/reviews information to a non-proprietary format.
| Note: | This feature is only supported in Collaborator Enterprise. For a complete list of differences between Collaborator editions, please see the comparison page. |
Create Project Archives
There is a single way to archive project reviews: from the Web Client.
To archive a project review/reviews from within the Web UI:
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Open the desired project in the Project Screen.
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Select Project Actions > Archive in project header:
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This will invoke a standard Save As dialog where you can specify the location for the archive.
Archive Contents
For each project a separate archive is created. Generated archive have the names in the format "project-ID-archive.zip", where ID stands for the identifier of the project.
Each archive contains the following information about the project review/reviews:
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The
ReviewDetails.pdffile contains a PDF version of the Review Detail Report. -
The
material_conversationssubfolder contains all the comments, defects and conversations that were made during the review. For each of the commented files a separate PDF version is created that holds the contents of the file and the comments and defects related to this file. -
Review materials.
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If the archive was created from Web UI, it contains all revisions of the materials that were uploaded to the review. If a file was uploaded multiple times (as it typically happens during rework), the archive will contain a copy of each file revision.
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The naming structure of subfolders that store review materials depends on how the materials were uploaded. For changes uploaded via version control system, the folder name will contain the name of SCM, the name of the repository and (if available) the ID of the changeset ("git-git.example.com_foo_repo.git-85d2f5ccb7f27e1628c09e4d1373f"). For uploads of arbitrary files, the folder names will contain the "upload-file-" portion followed by the date and time ("upload-file-2015-08-18-02-58-59").
Remarks
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The Allow Project Archive to zip setting controls who can use this feature. The possible values are: administrators, or all users.
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By default, all the reviews in the project should be in Completed, Cancelled or Rejected phases can be archived.
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The built-in PDF viewer of Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 do not support overlay layers in PDF files. Collaborator uses such layers to render coordinate comments (pushpins) in PDF versions of review materials for archived reviews. Because of this, pushpins will not be displayed if the PDF file from the archive is opened in the built-in PDF viewer of Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. As a workaround, please install the Adobe Acrobat Reader or any other full-featured PDF viewer.