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Title
Customized form details -
Description
What is the difference between "CurrentCopy" and "WorkingCopy"? -
Resolution
- Each Web Interface has its settings stored within the Active Roles database under a edsWIInterface object.
- Each Web Interface (edsWIInterface) has two settings containers (edsWICustomizationSettingsContainer):* Customization Settings* Interface Settings
- Within each of those containers, they both have 3 customization settings objects (edsWICustomizationSettings):* CurrentCopy - Containing the in use Customization and Interface settings on your web interface* WorkingCopy - Contains a copy of your existing configuration plus any changes you have made but have not submitted* Default - This contains your default Customization and Interface settings, which would either be the out of the box settings, or the configuration of your web interface from your last upgrade
- When you modify (for example) the new user form, the change you make:* Before clicking Save: Are stored in your sessions* After clicking Save: Are stored in the WorkingCopy virtual attributes* When you click Reload: The values of the virtual attributes are copied from WorkingCopy to Current Copy.* When you click Restore Default: The values of the virtual attributes are copied from Default to both CurrentCopy and WorkingCopy
- The attributes within the Customization Settings objects all start edsaWI:* Customization SettingsedsaWICommandsedsaWIEntriesedsaWIFormsedsaWIMenusedsaWIStrings* Interface SettingsedsaWISettings