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Aconex brings visibility and accountability to your projects.
Once you've added a document, mail, or other project information to Aconex, you can't remove it. Everything is securely retained and tracked in the un-alterable project record, giving you a full history of changes and decisions.
When you update a document, Aconex creates a new version of the document and records who made the change and when. Its previous versions remain in the audit trail.
Version control is a way to track the changes made to a document.
The audit trail is a record of changes made to documents, mail, and other project information, such as packages and issues.
Version control records any change made to a document or its metadata (like the document status or attributes) by keeping a copy of every version of the document.
Version numbers apply across the entire project, not separately within each organization. For example, if your organization creates version 1 and another organization later updates the same document, Aconex creates version 2.
Each time that document is updated, the version increases by 1. This is maintained regardless of:
Version control helps participants identify the latest version available to their organization. Updates made by another organization become available after that organization transmits them.
It’s also an element of good project governance and due diligence. Version control is an important part of the Aconex audit trail.
The Aconex audit trail records the changes made to documents, mail, and other information in Aconex. It lets you see who was responsible for which decisions.
Every user has access to most of the information making up the audit trail for their own organization, but some information can be restricted. For example, a mail may have been sent as confidential or a document may be restricted using access control.
A Revision is a text value entered by a user against a document record. For a drawing, this should match the revision printed in the title block of the document. Generally, this is a letter (A, B, C) or a number (1, 2, 3) but could be any combination as decided by the project team. The revision is a free text field of up to 15 characters and is not controlled or validated by Aconex.
A version is a system-generated number that increases consecutively each time a document is updated. For example:
Your project’s records will be kept according to the legal requirements imposed by the country or region where your project’s data is located. Aconex is fully compliant with the laws and regulations for data security and storage for each country we operate in.
At the end of your project, you can request a Project Archive. This is a read-only copy of all your organization’s activity in Aconex over the life of your project.
