Seeing an element in 2 states

[ggandhi]

I have already consulted Sparx on this. In my scenario, Architect Bill has an element with a Tagged value Tag1 set to A with the ‘status’ field as Implemented.  Bill is proposing a change to the value of Tag1 to B, so when Bill makes that change, he also changes the ‘status’ to Proposed (because it’s a proposed change, not yet implemented).

Question To Sparx Support:
Is there any way that Bill can go back and see what was the value of Tag1 while it was still in Implemented status? In other words, can Bill see the two different ‘states’ of the same element?

Reply from Sparx Support:
If you are wanting to automatically keep a snapshot of the element based on when its status changes, then this is not possible. Before making any change to Tag1, Bill could manually create a Baseline of the package. You could then make the changes and use the baseline comparison feature to see the previous values.

Question: Can you suggest a better solution than the reply from Sparx Support.

[qwerty]

You could use a further TV to store the previous status. It would also be possible to extend the repository with secret columns to store such old values.

Another way is to use auditing and retrieve changes from there.

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