Patent ID: 11880680
Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method, comprising:
maintaining, on a system comprising a processor, system project data that, in response to execution on one or more industrial devices, facilitates monitoring and control of an industrial automation system;
receiving, by the system from one or more client devices, edit records defining modifications requested to be performed on the system project data;
classifying a first subset of the edit records that are applied to the system project data as applied edit records;
classifying, by the system, a second subset of the edit records that are not applied to the system project data as unapplied edit records;
in response to receiving a first instruction to set a current version of the system project data as a milestone version, creating, by the system, a milestone record identifying a set of edit records that are currently applied to the system project data; and
in response to receiving a second instruction to restore the system project data to the milestone version, reverting the system project data to the milestone version, wherein the reverting comprises at least re-applying edits defined by one of the unapplied edit records to the system project data in response to determining that the one of the applied edit records is identified by the milestone record.