Can we see details about changes/change history?

[Mikek]

Is there a way to see detailed information about what was changed or deleted when that change doesn't trigger the green cell fill color? The change history will show a frequency or category updated or deleted, without a way to see what was changed or deleted. The below sample is from California's CalFire change history. CalFire switches things up pretty often. Thank you!

 

[RMason]

Is there a way to see detailed information about what was changed or deleted when that change doesn't trigger the green cell fill color? The change history will show a frequency or category updated or deleted, without a way to see what was changed or deleted. The below sample is from California's CalFire change history. CalFire switches things up pretty often. Thank you!

As a premium member, you can periodically download the csv data files for the department. Then use a utility such as tkdiff to compare 2 versions of the files to identify updates.

Some suggest using the RRDB Differences function in ProScan to detect and identify changes.

 

[Mikek]

Was hoping for something a bit more 'real time' than having to maintain my own offline files. I will try that though and see if it meets my needs. Thanks.

 

[RMason]

Was hoping for something a bit more 'real time' than having to maintain my own offline files. I will try that though and see if it meets my needs. Thanks.

I know - it's not ideal. But, at least it is a method that can help you identify changes made to the database.

This was recently discussed here:

Talkgroup Updates in database

It would be nice if any talkgroup changes would show up in the New/Updated section. As it is now (for my area) any name change, move, encryption setting or delete does not show. You have to hunt down what was changed. Just a wish list thing.

forums.radioreference.com

 

[RaleighGuy]

Was hoping for something a bit more 'real time' than having to maintain my own offline files. I will try that though and see if it meets my needs. Thanks.

Any changes are immediately marked in green in the database and then changed to yellow for I believe seven days. If you need "real time" then it would require monitoring the database each day since they do not offer email alerts for updates/changes.

 

[cubn]

There are a few rare instances where a database change won't show in green if the Admin marks the change to be "suppressed from the database".

I only use that for trivial things like fixing typos where I don't want everyone to get excited seeing green only for there not to be a discernable change.

 

[Mikek]

I seem to only see green for new additions to the database or renaming of existing trunked system site names. Those are not really an issue.

I don't see any colors for updates to existing frequency info like name, PL/NAC etc or subcategories (and there's no indication for deleted frequencies )

It would be great if we could get an audit log with a before and after of 'updates' and 'deletions' - even at the state level (let us figure it out from there if we must).

 

[wa8pyr]

What you're asking for would require major changes to the back end of the database, which are simply not feasible.... as noted in this earlier thread:

Talkgroup Updates in database

It would be nice if any talkgroup changes would show up in the New/Updated section. As it is now (for my area) any name change, move, encryption setting or delete does not show. You have to hunt down what was changed. Just a wish list thing.

forums.radioreference.com

As one of the admins noted above, we frequently use the "suppress timestamp" option when the changes in question are minor, such as spelling changes/fixes or what have you.