Error while Creating "Create As Of" versions

Question

Hello,
I thought of finally starting to make sure of the "Create As of" feature of DRM and generate Hierarchy Difference reports but I am having issues. When I righ-clicked my current version and clicked Create As of...
It gave me an error saying: The operation timed out - URL:http://myservername.com:11751/mdm_ntier/VersionMgr.asmx - SOAPAction:urn:UVersionMgrIntf-IVersionMgr#CreateAsOfDate.
Does anybody know what this means and/or how it may be resolved? Thanks.
-- Adi

Answer 1

Hi Adi,
As-Of Versions give you the ability to recreate a Version as it was at some point in its history - so if you had a Working Version which is being continually updated but you decided that all updates done in the last week were invalid you could recreate it as it was at the end of the previous week without the invalid updates. It is the equivalent of taking the Baseline version and applying all Transaction log entries up to the point where you want it. If you create the As-Of version and as of now it is equivalent to doing a Copy to New.
Not sure why you can't save As-Of versions - may be there's a technical version or may be it is just to emphasise that you're getting a new version without any history from the As-Of.
Ed