Xinet version management When a Xinet server has been configured to keep versions of files, Xinet allows remote viewers with proper permissions to see the various versions through a Web browser, select a new “current” version for production use, delete versions, and download versions. (If you’re using Xinet Portal, see Managing asset versions for information about Xinet Portal’s built-in version mechanism.) Using Xinet to manage versions Xinet contains a Show Versions icon which, through its File Info dialog allows remote users with proper access privileges to: • Review all existing versions of a file. • Find out more information about any version. • Delete versions from the server. • Place versions in a Collection for downloading. • Make any existing version the current working version. (Your Xinet administrator must give you proper File Management permissions before this can work.) Let’s use an image called portrait6.tif and its version to take a tour of Xinet Version Management features: 1. We first use Photoshop and the Xinet Versioning plug-in to save several versions of a KISS-1976.jpg. 2. Then, we log onto a Xinet server, open the folder where the versions are saved, and click the File Info icon. 3. Locate the Show Versions icon. (It only appears when Xinet Versioning has already saved versions): 4. Clicking on the Show Versions icon will, in turn, opens the Version Management window. 5. Clicking the Make Working Version icon will make an older version the current working version—although, Xinet asks that one confirm the choice before reverting. A copy of the selected version becomes the new current version. The previous working version has been assigned a version number and appears as the latest version in the folder. 6. Clicking the trash icon beneath a version allows you to also delete any older version. 7. It is also possible to add any version to the shopping cart and then download it. Managing archived versions Sites using Xinet can also store previews and fpos of archived files and their versions. These will be visible in Web browsers, appearing just like “live” files there, except that the Make the Current Working Version option will not be available.
