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Design Manager M1.5: New version is created instead of new revision eventhough the input design netlist has not changed


Record #4131

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  M1 Graphical/General

Problem Title:
Design Manager M1.5: New version is created instead of new revision
eventhough the input design netlist has not changed



Problem Description:
Keywords: version, revision, netlist, abort, translate

Urgency: Standard

General Description:

When implementing a design where the input netlist (XNF, EDN, etc..)
has not changed, the 'Implement' dialog box (Design->Implement) shows that a
new version is to be created ('New version name' field) instead of a new revisio
n.

The following steps may have been taken to produce this issue:

1)Selecting Design->Implement->Run to begin processing a design.

2)Once Flow Engine was invoked, Translate was manually aborted by selecting the
'abort' button.

3)After answering YES to abort, the Flow Engine was closed.

4)Back in the DM, selecting Design->Implement brought up the 'Implement" dialog.


Here you notice that the 'New version name' field designates a new VERSION to be

created as opposed to a new revision.  However, the input netlist has not change
d at all.


Solution 1:

This behavior comes about as a result of other features changes that have been
made to the M1.5 release.

A simple workaround exists:

Select "Overwrite last revision" from the 'Implement' status dialog so that a ne
w version is not created.



End of Record #4131