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Overview

In this lesson, we are going to review the Database Documentation in Wayfast and how this automatically track all the objects associated to the Project. A very helpful feature that give us visibility and traceability on development application.

How to analyze the documentation from DB?

As precondition, make sure that we have an active requirement in our project. Turn to “Database” section at the top menu. Then click on “Documentation” tab

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A grid view is displayed with the elements associated to our project. You can filter by “All” in the “Lines Q” dropdown field to view the entire list. Also you can find two checkboxes:

• Only Modified by Me

• Only Used (Last 60 Days)

Depending on the selection, Wayfast will return the details on each object’s database, # of lines, modified by and last modified date.

Click on “Lookpup” icon under “Edit Script” column

A new tab is displayed on screen with the script lines that we made in SQL. Also there are some dropdown fields to navigate through the different databases in the project and the corresponding tables. Also there are 2 options to execute or synchronize the script.

Return to “Documentation” tab, click on “Lookup” icon under “References” column

A popup is displayed in order to analyze the relationship between the Database object and the different elements in Wayfast like Datasets, Controls and Actions. This window cannot be edited, it’s only informative.

If we click on “Lookup” icon related to the “Versioning” column, we can observed the popup that display the script and all the listed versions that Wayfast synchronized in Database.

This is an important feature to analyze and track possible problems between the versions that we developed in Wayfast. If we click on “View Script” lookup icon, we can verify the scripts and the changes made by each developer user.

Recap

In the first part of the lesson, we learnt how to filter the documentation associated to our Database and depending on these filters, we can observed which scripts were developed and synchronized. In the second part, we learnt how to analyze this information in detail by checking the versioning on each of the elements available in Wayfast. This is an important tool to keep the project clean and brings clarity on development.