File extension change from xls to xlsm

Hi Cristina,

What is the error message your users are seeing?

Regards,

Kael

Hello Cristina,

Renaming the file should not cause you to lose previous revisions. You should still be able to access the earlier revisions of the file (before it was renamed).

One way to view the contents of a previous revision (for example 1.3), is to view the Revision Contents from the Member History view:

• Right-click on the renamed member (either in the Sandbox or Project view)
• Select View Member History
• Once the Member History view loads, right-click on a member revision (ie. 1.3)
• Select View Revision Contents

I'm not sure how you are trying to open the older revisions, but I hope this provides some clarity.

Regards,

Danny

Hi at all,

I was wondering, why the error message says "Excel cannot open file yyy.xlsm because the file format or file extension is not valid." although the old revisions were named yyy.xls.

This led me to (in my opinion) the reason for this behavior (unfortunatelly not the solution ).

First of all: I aggree to everyone saying "revision history is not changed by any new revision", meaning the content is not changed.

But I also aggree to Christina, that old revisions can not be opened.

Accorindg to me, this behavior is caused by the fact that the member name (which includes the file extension) is not "restored", when an old revision is opened.

When opening an old revision, Integrity loads the content of the revision from the server and stores it (with a cryptic file name and the latest file extension) in a local temp-folder. This results in a file with the old content, but the new file extension.

Try renaming a file from xlsx to docx. Integrity tries to open all old revisions as docx files in word...

Or: If you use "update member revision" to switch back to an old revision: the member name is not changed, leading to the same problem.

Regards

Markus