Setting Naming Rules for Model Versions and Back-Ups

Set verification expressions and name schema when creating successor versions and back-ups to ensure versions and back-ups have the same name.

Prerequisites

You require a suitable version rule for your model's name when editing properties of a managed model.

Context

Set regular verification expressions and name schema when creating successor versions and back-ups to ensure versions and back-ups have the same name.

Restriction

Name rules for versions and back-ups must correspond with the version rules in the user management. Otherwise you may not be able to start created versions and back-ups.

Verification expressions are regular expressions which must fulfill the name of new model versions and back-ups. The wizards check that regular verification expressions have been adhered to when a version or back-up of the managed model is created.

Name schemata form the template for renaming new versions or back-ups in the wizards so they can be created.

You can use placeholders for date, model, version context and user for name schemata.

Date: $(YYYY), $(YY), $(MM), $(DD)
Time: $(hh), $(mm), $(ss)
Name of the respective managed model: $(Model.Name)
Name of the model version; the subversion, successor version or back-up is created using it: $(Source.Name)
"Obvious" user name: $(User.Name)
"Technical" user name: $(User.LoginName)

These placeholders are resolved in the name field for the version or back-up in the wizards.

The name suggestion should satisfy the verification expression so that the suggested name is valid.

Example of use for placeholders:

$(Source.Name)

Initially from source version: "1.0". Easy to change to "2.0" (Same Level) or "1.1" (Subordinate Level).
$(YY)-$(MM)-$(DD)-$(hh)-$(mm)

Back-ups are sorted in ascending order.

How to proceed

Select the managed model with the name rule you want to set in the Managed Models tab in the version tree.
Select View>View>Edit Properties.

The properties of the model version appear in the workspace.
Jump to the Naming Rules section.
To set a Check expression for version or back-up names for the managed model, enter a regular expression which defines the permissible name in the for versions or for backups fields.
To set a Naming proposal for version or back-up names for the managed model, enter a name suggestion which corresponds to the verification expression in the for versions or for backups fields.

You can use placeholders; these can be resolved and overwritten in the name field in the wizards for the version or back-up.
Click on Apply bottom right to adopt the name rules.

The name rules apply to the new versions or back-ups for the managed model.