Understanding Drafts

At its core, a draft in Orgvue is simply a list of proposed changes. Drafts are always viewed in the context of a dataset and must be opened over a dataset that shares the same structure (i.e. the same property listing) as the one it was originally created from.

How Drafts Display Changes

A draft only displays a change if that change differs from the current value in the dataset it’s opened with.
If the draft’s value matches the dataset’s value, such as when a draft has been imported into that dataset, the change is no longer shown.

This behaviour has a few important implications:

• A draft may appear empty, even though it contains changes.
• The visible changes in a draft may vary depending on which dataset it’s opened over, even if both datasets share the same structure.
• Importing a draft into a dataset can lead to unintended results if the visible changes were reviewed without full awareness of underlying differences.

Viewing All Data in a Draft

Currently, Orgvue does not provide a built-in way to view all the data contained in a draft at once.

However, you can use this workaround to surface the full contents of a draft:

1. Create a Save As copy of a dataset with the same structure.
2. In the new copy, clear all property values, except for the Auto ID property.
3. Open the draft over this blank dataset copy.
4. All changes in the draft will now appear clearly in the Changes Report slide.